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Edith Pearlman (1936-2023) published her debut collection of stories in 1996, aged 60. She won The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Binocular Vision. She has published over 250 works of short fiction in magazines, literary journals, anthologies and online publications. Her work has won three O. Henry Prizes, the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, and a Mary McCarthy Prize, among others. In 2011, Pearlman was the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award, which puts her in the ranks of luminaries like John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates.[Pearlman's stories are] meticulously made, miraculously precise, and so fully populated that you marvel one mind could invent so many distinct human beings from scratch.
- Sam Leith, Financial Times
One of the great discoveries of the decade was the Jewish American Pearlman, who had been writing for four decades before this collection gave her the acclaim she thoroughly deserved
Sunday Times, Books of the Decade
This book is a spectacular literary revelation... With Binocular Vision a new fictional planet, richly populated and suffused with warm lucidity, comes into view.'
- Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times
An unsung master
- Megan Walsh, The Times
Her writing is intelligent, perceptive, funny, and quite beautiful... Maybe from now on everyone will know of Edith Pearlman.
- Roxana Robinson, New York Times Book Review
Among the best-kept secrets in US short fiction for decades... Make up for lost time now and catch up with Pearlman.
- Ben Felsenburg, Metro
Gold medal class ... seems beyond compare ... The traditional literary system has worked, though grievously slowly, in giving a genius of the short story her due.
- Mark Lawson, Guardian
The equal of Updike or Munro... This book will make your summer shine.
- Boyd Tonkin, Independent
These are stories to linger over.
Daily Mail
The literary discovery of 2013... lucid, witty, devastating... a masterclass on how to deliver literature's bittersweet blow in simply a few pages
Sunday Telegraph
No devotee of the short-story form will be unfamiliar with this quietly gifted American artist... She has written more great stories than one writer could expect, even during a 40-year career. Unfair? Life's like that
- Eileen Battersby, Irish Times
Edith Pearlman is the best short story writer in the world. A lot of people know that. More will
- Susan Hill, The Times
There remain a few dedicated practitioners of the short story, and Edith Pearlman is one to be cherished
Wall Street Journal
Edith Pearlman is a new literary It girl... a fortifying pleasure to read
Financial Times
One of America's great modern short-story writers
Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award Finalist
Pearlman's stories themselves offer a subtle optical training, showing us people in all their funniness and frailty... and teaching us to understand what we see
Times Literary Supplement
Precise and exquisite... a book of wonder
Jewish Quarterly
Pearlman peels back the surface of the conventional and reveals the more complicated emotions underneath... Of all the remarkable things about Binocular Vision, this may be
the most compelling, that it enacts a worldview in thirty-four precise and subtle movements, reminding us that if connection is elusive, there is nobility in perseverance, and that we are almost always greater than the sum of our parts
Los Angeles Times
These stories are note-perfect... By gathering some earlier pieces along with her newest work, this volume shows an artist who has never stopped developing
Boston Globe
What makes Pearlman so good? Like Didion, she's a master of the spare sentence, of the restrained emotion... But where Didion's detachment can feel ruthless, Pearlman's is largely compassionate, sometimes even faintly amused. It is the detachment of a good psychologist or a favorite aunt, the kind whose home you want to visit again and again
Washington Post
Edith Pearlman's stories will be national treasures
Wilmington Star-News
Give this wonderful collection to fans of such classic short story writers as Andre Dubus and Alice Munro and novelists like Nicole Krauss. They will thank you
Booklist, starred review
Rare is the collection that rewards many divings; rarer still when all of the work, whether early or new, is confident in its artistry, when the hours spent reading escape notice in the way only complete absorption allows... No schmaltz, no judgment, no tugging at the heartstrings, just a steady gaze and a gradual widening of the focus as Pearlman lets readers in on something wonderful and searing that had been there all along
The Rumpus
'The best short story writer in the world' Susan Hill
'This book is a spectacular literary revelation' Sunday Times
The collected stories of an award-winning, modern classic American writer who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike - and even Anton Chekhov
Tenderly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captured life on the page like no one else. Spanning forty years of writing, moving from tsarist Russia to the coast of Maine, from Jerusalem to Massachusetts, these astonishing stories reveal one of America's greatest modern writers.
Across a stunning array of scenes-an unforeseen love affair between adolescent cousins, an elderly couple's decision to shoplift, an old woman's deathbed confession of her mother's affair-Edith Pearlman crafts a timeless and unique sensibility, shot through with wit, lucidity and compassion.
Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe
Edith Pearlman (1936-2023) published her debut collection of stories in 1996, aged 60. She won The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Binocular Vision. She published over 250 works of short fiction in magazines, literary journals, anthologies and online publications. Her work won three O. Henry Prizes, the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, and a Mary McCarthy Prize, among others. In 2011, Pearlman was the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award, which put her in the ranks of luminaries like John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates.