Edith Pearlman

Honeydew: Stories Edith Pearlman

Publisher Marketing: A new story collection from the author of" Binocular Vision," winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the National Book AwardOver the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the great practitioners of the short story. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and Frank O Connor. This latest collection of twenty new stories is an occasion for celebration. Pearlman writes with warmth about the predicaments of being human. The title story involves an affair, an illegitimate pregnancy, anorexia, and adolescent drug use, but the true excitement comes from the evocation of the interior lives of young Emily Knapp, who wishes she were a bug, and her inner circle. The Golden Swan transports listeners to a cruise ship with lavish buffets and a surprise stowaway while the lead story, Tenderfoot, follows a widowed pedicurist searching for love with a new customer anguishing over his own buried trauma. Whether the characters we encounter are a special child with pentachromatic vision, a group of displaced Somali women adjusting to life in suburban Boston, or a staid professor of Latin unsettled by a random invitation to lecture on the mystery of life and death, Pearlman knows each of them intimately and reveals them with unsurpassed generosity." Review Citations: Booklist 12/15/2014 pg. 25 (EAN 9780316297240, Open Ebook) - *Starred Review Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2014 pg. 58 (EAN 9780316297226, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2014 (EAN 9780316297226, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Publishers Weekly 11/10/2014 (EAN 9780316297226, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Library Journal 12/01/2014 pg. 100 (EAN 9780316297226, Hardcover) Booklist 12/15/2014 pg. 25 (EAN 9780316297226, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Shelf Awareness 01/09/2015 (EAN 9780316297226, Hardcover) People Weekly 01/12/2015 pg. 32 (EAN 9780316297226, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 01/04/2015 pg. 1 (EAN 9780316297226, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 01/11/2015 pg. 22 (EAN 9780316297226, Hardcover) Bookpage 01/01/2015 (EAN 9780316297226, Hardcover) New Yorker (The) 02/23/2015 pg. 176 (EAN 9780316297226, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Pearlman, Edith Edith Pearlman s collection "Binocular Vision" won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award, as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Story Prize. The author of several other story collections, she has also received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story. Her widely admired stories have been reprinted numerous times in "The Best American Short Stories", "The O. Henry Prize Stories", and "The Pushcart Prize". A New Englander by both birth and preference, Pearlman lives with her husband in Brookline, Massachusetts. Contributor Bio:  Toren, Suzanne Suzanne Toren has recorded over nine hundred audiobooks. She has performed on Broadway and in regional theaters in works penned by Shakespeare, Moliere, and Arthur Miller. She has also appeared on "Law & Order" and in various soap operas. She was awarded the Narrator of the Year Award for her audiobook recordings for the Library of Congress. She has earned more than two dozen Earphones Awards from" AudioFile" magazine.