This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. In addition to certain standard Google cookies, reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. This cookie is used to enable payment on the website without storing any patment information on a server. This cookie is set by Stripe payment gateway. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. In 2011, Pearlman was also the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award, which puts her in the ranks of luminaries like John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates. Henry Prizes, the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, and a Mary McCarthy Prize, among others. She has published over 250 works of short fiction in magazines, literary journals, anthologies and online publications. In 2011, she won The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Binocular Vision. ‘These are stories to linger over.’ – Daily MailĮdith Pearlman, born in 1936, published her debut collection of stories in 1996, at age 60. ‘The equal of Updike or Munro… This book will make your summer shine.’ – Boyd Tonkin Independent ‘The surprise literary hit of the year to date… The complexity and mess of human lives, beautifully rendered in (often funny) tales.’ – Lionel Barber Financial Times These quiet, elegant stories add something significant to the literary landscape.’ – The New York Times Her characters inhabit terrain that all of us recognize, one defined by anxieties and longing, love and grief, loss and exultation. view of the world is large and compassionate, delivered through small, beautifully precise moments. ‘Pearlman writes about the predicaments odd, wry, funny and painful of being human. ‘ pearls that encapsulate resonant moments… Make up for lost time now and catch up with Pearlman.’ ‘ meticulously made, miraculously precise, and so fully populated that you marvel one mind could invent so many distinct human beings from scratch. ‘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.

‘This book is a spectacular literary revelation… With Binocular Vision a new fictional planet, richly populated and suffused with warm lucidity, comes into view.’ ‘Edith Pearlman is the best short story writer in the world. She is a master of the short story, and this is a spectacular collection. Tenderly, observantly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captures life on the page like few other writers. Edith Pearlman’s Binocular Vision are the collected stories of an award-winning author who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike and even Chekhov

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