Starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist The Millions Most Anticipated 2015 Book Preview The New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice & “New Books for the New Year” Selection She is wise, yes, but also unfailingly generous, even joyous… it certainly makes her fiction a fortifying pleasure to read.” Particular perspective that, like a perfume, floats throughout… to make of life’s everyday leavings a life-saving nectar - is, perhaps, Pearlman’s most consistent endeavour. “Pearlman’s stories - slightly old-fashioned in their use of conceit refreshingly loose in their capacity for digression or tangent occasionally Whartonian in the bemused and acidic clarity of their narrative eye - are sui generis… share a If “Binocular Vision” launched Pearlman, rightly, into the spotlight, “Honeydew” should cement her reputation as one of the most essential short story visionaries of our time.” And where on earth would literature be without its great contrarians? Nowhere good. To commit oneself wholly to the short story, as Edith Pearlman has done, suggests not only a gift for exploding the boundaries of the form, but something of a contrarian spirit. Better still if the novel in question is large enough to be wielded interchangeably as a doorstop and a weapon. “We write in a culture that favors the heft of the novel. But Pearlman deserves the comparisons, and this is the point toward which I’ve been meandering: Pearlman is our greatest living American short story writer, and 'Honeydew' is her best collection yet.”

“.Cheever, Paley, Spark: these, I realize, are some big names.

Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman