Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2012
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When asked to describe her short stories, Edith Pearlman replied that they are stories about people in peculiar circumstances aching to Do The Right Thing. She elaborated with the same wit and intimacy that make her stories a delight to read:\u201cBefore I was a writer I was a reader; and reading remains a necessary activity, occupying several joyous hours of every day. I like novels, essays, and biographies; but most of all I like the short story: narrative at its most confiding.\u201cMy own work, and particularly the stories in Vaquita, aims at a similar intimacy between writer and reader. My imagined reader wants to know who loves whom, who drinks what, and, mostly, who answers to what summons. Thank Heavens for Spike Lee! Before his movies writers and critics had to natter about moral stances; now I can say with a more tripping tongue that my characters are people in peculiar circumstances, aching to Do The Right Thing if only they can figure out what The Right Thing is. If not, they’ll at least Do Their Own Right Thing Right.\u201cAnd I’m drawn to heat: sweltering Central American cities; a steamy soup kitchen; Jerusalem in midsummer; the rekindled passion of an old historian; the steady fire of terminal pain. I like solitaires, oddities, charlatans, and children. My characters are secretive; in almost every story somebody harbors a hidden love, dread, regret, or the memory of an insult awaiting revenge.\u201cWhen I stop writing stories I plan to write letters, short and then shorter. My mother could put three sentences onto a postcard and make the recipient think he’d read a novel. I’m working towards a similar compression.\u201d - E-bokEngelska, 2015
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''Prepare to be dazzled. Edith Pearlman''s latest, elating work confirms her place as one of the great modern short-story writers'' Sunday Times''A genius of the short story'' Guardian''A moreish treat from a master of the form'' New Statesman''This majestic new collection is cause for celebration'' Scotsman''A fortifying pleasure to read'' Financial Times''One of the most essential short-story visionaries of our time'' New York TimesOver the last few decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the great short-story writers.The stories in Honeydew are unmistakably by Pearlman; whole lives in ten pages. They are minutely observant of people, of their foibles and failings, but also of their moments of kindness and truth. Whether the characters are Somalian women who''ve suffered circumcision, a special child with pentachromatic vision 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 generosity.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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'Prepare to be dazzled. Edith Pearlman's latest, elating work confirms her place as one of the great modern short-story writers' Sunday Times'A genius of the short story' Guardian'A moreish treat from a master of the form' New Statesman'This majestic new collection is cause for celebration' Scotsman'A fortifying pleasure to read' Financial Times'One of the most essential short-story visionaries of our time' New York TimesOver the last few decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the great short-story writers.The stories in Honeydew are unmistakably by Pearlman; whole lives in ten pages. They are minutely observant of people, of their foibles and failings, but also of their moments of kindness and truth. Whether the characters are Somalian women who've suffered circumcision, a special child with pentachromatic vision 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 generosity. - Häftad, Engelska, 2023
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'The best short story writer in the world' Susan Hill
'This book is a spectacular literary revelation' Sunday Times
The collected stories of an award-winning, modern classic American writer who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike - and even Anton Chekhov
Tenderly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captured life on the page like no one else. Spanning forty years of writing, moving from tsarist Russia to the coast of Maine, from Jerusalem to Massachusetts, these astonishing stories reveal one of America's greatest modern writers.
Across a stunning array of scenes-an unforeseen love affair between adolescent cousins, an elderly couple's decision to shoplift, an old woman's deathbed confession of her mother's affair-Edith Pearlman crafts a timeless and unique sensibility, shot through with wit, lucidity and compassion.
Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe
Edith Pearlman (1936-2023) published her debut collection of stories in 1996, aged 60. She won The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Binocular Vision. She published over 250 works of short fiction in magazines, literary journals, anthologies and online publications. Her work won three O. Henry Prizes, the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, and a Mary McCarthy Prize, among others. In 2011, Pearlman was the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award, which put her in the ranks of luminaries like John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates.
- E-bokPDF, Engelska, 2005
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Edith Pearlman manages to combine subtlety with extravagance, understatement with spectacle, drawing our focus to the eccentricities of those who would prefer to remain unnoticed. . . . Confronted with unexpected obstacles, these characters exchange the blurring comfort of routine with spontaneity and improvisation . . . . Full of vivid, intricate, nuanced portraits, confidently focused, restrained and yet spirited, saturated with a powerful imaginative sympathy, How to Fall is a remarkable collection by a remarkable writer.—From the Foreword by Joanna Scott
How to Fall is a darkly humorous collection that welcomes the world’s immense variety with confidence. Spanning no fewer than four countries in sixty years, these sixteen stories flesh out the complexities of people who, at first glance, live ordinary, unremarkable lives. Widowers, old men, estranged spouses, young restaurant workers, career women and Jewish grandmothers are all at the center of Pearlman’s cool, studied observation. Each character is rendered with such unpredictable intricacy that they often astonish themselves just as much as the reader. Many of the stories either begin or wind their way back to one, mythical, two-by-three-mile Massachusetts town—Godolphin, a place that “called itself a town but was really a leafy wedge of Boston.”
Edith Pearlman has published over 100 stories in national magazines, literary journals, anthologies and online publications. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize collection, New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best and The Pushcart Prize collection. Her first collection of stories, Vaquita, won the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, and her second, Love Among the Greats, won the Spokane Prize for Fiction. She now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
- E-bokSpanska, 2017
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Hace ya varios decenios que Edith Pearlman viene reclamando un puesto entre los grandes cuentistas de todos los tiempos. Su modo incomparable de ver la realidad, su consumada maestría, su ingenio amplio y generoso, han dado lugar a que se la compare con Anton Chéjov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley y Frank O''Connor." Miel del desierto " constituye una asombrosa recopilación de relatos y viene a ser una auténtica celebración de la autora. Sean cuales sean sus personajes, Pearlman los conoce a todos, íntimamente, y nos los describe con insuperable generosidad. Su prosa, tan afinada como poética, arroja luz sobre momentos muy precisos y muy devastadores, logrando que reflejen la belleza y la gracia que puede haber en la vida cotidiana.Por su mérito literario y por lo fácil que resulta identificar a estos personajes que con tanta exquisitez y solidaridad nos describe, "Miel del desierto " es una recopilación que nunca llegará a borrarse de la memoria del lector y viene a demostrar, una vez más, que Pearlman es una gran maestra de la forma, pero también que su visión del mundo nunca deja de ser sabia y comprensiva. - Häftad, Svenska, 2014
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Under fyrtio år gav den amerikanska författaren Edith Pearlman, född 1936, ut prisbelönta novellsamlingar. Men det var först 2010 som hon slog igenom med novellsamlingen Kikarseende. Kritikerna jublade och jämställde henne med Anton Tjechov och Alice Munro. I Kikarseende tar Pearlman oss med ut i världen, från Jerusalem till London under Blitzen, från Manhattan till Godolphin, en uppdiktad förort till Boston. Ett ämne som författaren, själv judinna, ofta återkommer till är efterkrigstidens judiska diaspora. Vidsynt och medkännande betraktar hon sin omvärld, med värme, humor och en utpräglad känsla for det absurda skildrar hon sina karaktärer och deras sårbarhet, deras oro, längtan, sorg och glädje. "(...) hennes fantastiska sinne för detaljer öppnar nya världar." Norrköpings Tidningar "Hon är så bra! (...) Hon har den där förmågan som riktigt riktigt bra novellförfattare har - hon fångar en direkt.(...) Berit Skogsberg har gjort en alldeles utmärkt översättning." Go'kväll, SVT - Häftad, Engelska, 2005
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Edith Pearlman manages to combine subtlety with extravagance, understatement with spectacle, drawing our focus to the eccentricities of those who would prefer to remain unnoticed. . . . Confronted with unexpected obstacles, these characters exchange the blurring comfort of routine with spontaneity and improvisation . . . . Full of vivid, intricate, nuanced portraits, confidently focused, restrained and yet spirited, saturated with a powerful imaginative sympathy, How to Fall is a remarkable collection by a remarkable writer.From the Foreword by Joanna ScottHow to Fall is a darkly humorous collection that welcomes the world’s immense variety with confidence. Spanning no fewer than four countries in sixty years, these sixteen stories flesh out the complexities of people who, at first glance, live ordinary, unremarkable lives. Widowers, old men, estranged spouses, young restaurant workers, career women and Jewish grandmothers are all at the center of Pearlman’s cool, studied observation. Each character is rendered with such unpredictable intricacy that they often astonish themselves just as much as the reader. Many of the stories either begin or wind their way back to one, mythical, two-by-three-mile Massachusetts townGodolphin, a place that called itself a town but was really a leafy wedge of Boston.”Edith Pearlman has published over 100 stories in national magazines, literary journals, anthologies and online publications. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize collection, New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best and The Pushcart Prize collection. Her first collection of stories, Vaquita, won the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, and her second, Love Among the Greats, won the Spokane Prize for Fiction. She now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
