Honeydew: Stories
β Scribed by Pearlman, Edith
- Book ID
- 108290873
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780316297240
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β¦ Synopsis
**A new story collection from Edith Pearlman, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the National Book Award for her last collection,Binocular Vision.
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Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time 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. Her latest work, gathered in this stunning 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 intricate evocation of the interior lives of young Emily Knapp, who wishes she were a bug, and her inner circle. "The Golden Swan" transports the reader to a...
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