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“[Honeydew is] especially effective on audio, thanks to Suzanne Toren’s artistry…She creates credible, complicated characters…and Toren’s performance puts a unique stamp on each remarkable piece. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
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“The stories in Honeydew excel at capturing the complex and surprising turns in seemingly ordinary lives.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“The twenty stories are vinegary, rueful, droll, humane, and endlessly inquisitive.”
— Wall Street Journal
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“A generous collection of depth and sensitivity featuring a range of
unusual characters.”
— O, The Oprah Magazine
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“Prepare to be dazzled…Vivacity and zest enliven every page. Body language is wittily caught…Personalities are keenly explored.”
— Sunday Times (London)
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“This affecting collection periscopes into small lives, expanding them
with stunning subtlety…Magical…Sensual.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Another collection of closely observed, often devastating stories…exemplary tales, lively and lovely.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“In the tradition of Joyce, Chekhov, Updike, and Munro, Pearlman’s surprising, memorable stories are joys to behold.”
— Shelf Awareness
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“Pearlman not only writes with bewitching clarity, she also fathoms
much about our inner lives and relationships that is unexpectedly
wondrous.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“A stellar collection…the mysteries of love and friendship, the indignities and compensations of growing older, and the knotty complexities of the human heart.”
— Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers
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“Honeydew is brilliant. Edith Pearlman is among the greatest of the greats.”
— Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton
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I think that Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories should be the book with which Edith Pearlman casts off her secret-handshake status and takes up her rightful position as a national treasure. Put her stories beside those of John Updike and Alice Munro. That's where they belong.
— Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto, State of Wonder, and This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
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Edith Pearlman is an absolute master of the form: these are stories that abjure tricks and flash for brilliantly drawn characters, classic construction, and language that sings and aches all at once.
— T.C. Boyle, author of The Women
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Edith Pearlman's curiosity and highly empathetic intelligence squire the reader through a marvelous variety of physical and psychological landscapes. But the collection also reveals the lovely common denominator of her fiction, a buoyant grace, which she gently exhorts us to recognize in everyday life.
— Chris Adrian, author of A Better Angel
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In a world where volume is often prized over what's actually been said, it is a great comfort to know there are writers like Edith Pearlman, who works outside the noise and writes alongside Chekhov and Frank O'Connor and other master storytellers.
— Yiyun Li, author of Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
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So many lives seethe inside this book! It's a city, a country, a world, rendered in devastating detail and delivered from one woman's sparkling and rare imagination. If you read, write, or teach short fiction -- if you believe gorgeous, scrupulously made literature nourishes the soul -- then you must read Edith Pearlman.
— Anthony Doerr, author of Memory Wall
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Edith Pearlman is a master of the short story . . . and we're lucky to have Binocular Vision, this generous book of new and selected stories. Pearlman's characters . . . are complicated, fully alive. You can't stop reading, because you know they'll astonish you on the very next page.
— Alice Mattison, author of Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn
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These quiet, elegant stories add something significant to the literary landscape.
— Roxana Robinson, New York Times Book Review