‘Pearlman writes about the predicaments odd, wry, funny and painful of being human. ‘ pearls that encapsulate resonant moments… Make up for lost time now and catch up with Pearlman.’ ‘ meticulously made, miraculously precise, and so fully populated that you marvel one mind could invent so many distinct human beings from scratch. ‘Gold medal class … seems beyond compare … The traditional literary system has worked, though grievously slowly, in giving a genius of the short story her due. ‘This book is a spectacular literary revelation… With Binocular Vision a new fictional planet, richly populated and suffused with warm lucidity, comes into view.’ ‘Edith Pearlman is the best short story writer in the world. She is a master of the short story, and this is a spectacular collection. Tenderly, observantly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captures life on the page like few other writers. Edith Pearlman’s Binocular Vision are the collected stories of an award-winning author who has been compared to Alice Munro, John Updike and even Chekhov
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