It will take me months, as one story is a full meal-remarkably as full-bodied as a good novel. No way can I read this in the span of a library loan.
Two stories into my reading, I leapt to the computer and ordered a copy of this book. Perhaps the first paragraph of this review answers the question of the second.
Mary Ann Sieghart writes, "The Irish novelist John Boyne remembers attending a literary festival where three established male novelists were referred to in the program as 'giants of world literature,' while a panel of female writers of equal stature were described as 'wonderful storytellers.'"Īnn Patchett writes in the introduction to this massive short story collection: To that great list of human mysteries which includes the construction of the pyramids and the persistent use of Styrofoam as a packing material let me add this one: why isn't Edith Pearlman famous?She considers Pearlman one of the literary giants. In today's Lithub there is an article (excerpted from a book) on the phenomenon of women reading male and female writers, but men reading largely only male writers. No matter the situation in which her characters find themselves-an unforeseen love affair between adolescent cousins, a lifetime of memories unearthed by an elderly couple's decision to shoplift, the deathbed secret of a young girl's forbidden forest tryst with the tsar, the danger that befalls a wealthy couple's child in a European inn of misfits-Edith Pearlman conveys their experience with wit and aplomb, with relentless but clear-eyed optimism, and with a supple prose that reminds us, sentence by sentence, page by page, of the gifts our greatest verbal innovators can bestow.īinocular Vision reveals a true American original, a master of the story, showing us, with her classic sensibility and lasting artistry, the cruelties, the longings, and the rituals that connect human beings across space and time. These charged locales, and the lives of the endlessly varied characters within them, are evoked with a tenderness and incisiveness found in only our most observant seers. Spanning four decades and three prize-winning collections, these twenty-one vintage selected stories and thirteen scintillating new ones take us around the world, from Jerusalem to Central America, from tsarist Russia to London during the Blitz, from central Europe to Manhattan, and from the Maine coast to Godolphin, Massachusetts, a fictional suburb of Boston. In this sumptuous offering, one of our premier storytellers provides a feast for fiction aficionados. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE, SUNDAY TIMES, LONDON WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
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