Honeydew: Stories, by Edith Pearlman
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #80090 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-22
- Released on: 2015-09-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 5.50" h x .75" w x 8.25" l, .62 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
Review "Honeydew should cement [Pearlman's] reputation as one of the most essential short story visionaries of our time."―The New York Times Book Review "There remain a few dedicated practitioners of the short story, and Edith Pearlman is one to be cherished... The 20 stories [in Honeydew] are vinegary, rueful, droll, humane and endlessly inquisitive. Though intricately constructed, they are slight in drama and emphasis, set down like a light footprint that nevertheless fixes itself in one's memory as though pressed in wet cement."―The Wall Street Journal"Pearlman is our greatest living American short story writer, and Honeydew is her best collection yet."―The Boston Globe"Pearlman's short fiction is interesting for the ways in which it combines proximity and distance... Pearlman can also move back from characters, in order to see the entire span of their lives. Then she becomes one of God's spies, condensing a life into a few sentences, taking on the power of prophecy... Pearlman's fiction brings together, with uncanny wisdom, short views and long views: the hours of lives and the length of our lives. She is tender and distant at once."―James Wood, The New Yorker "Even though [Pearlman's] characters have feet of clay like the rest of us, they often seem to float above the ordinary world like the figures in a Chagall painting... What a pleasure to encounter a writer who can speak volumes in a few short sentences."―The Seattle Times"Reading a Pearlman story is like entering the jet stream of some stranger's life. You feel the rush and fear and excitement, and then you exit, overcome but satisfied. Her nuanced stories, each one a small gem, explore complicated relationships and strange conundrums found in everyday life."―San Fransisco Chronicle"If you have never read Edith Pearlman, you're in for a lovely surprise, and if you have, you're in for another treat... Honeydew is ripe with often bittersweet, unconventional love stories that somehow manage to encompass loss and pain yet reaffirm the value of living... Like Alice Munro, Pearlman deftly encapsulates whole lifetimes in compact stories by focusing on pivotal moments that reverberate over decades."―The Washington Post"Exquisite work... Such narrative judgment and authority are a pleasure to be in the presence of... This newest book contains 20 stories in fewer than 300 pages, and even the shortest among them convey a depth and a texture well out of proportion to what their word counts might suggest them capable of."―The Chicago Tribune"Like Alice Munro, Pearlman confronts the earthier aspects of life without a steady authorial gaze... Pearlman conveys heft and profundity in few words and with the lightest of touches; her climactic revelations are nver thudding or melodramatic, nor do her conclusions trail off disappointingly... Her stories are beautifully crafted and formally coherent... The stories in Honeydew are original, unsentimental and profoundly bizarre... unforgettable."―Commentary"The short story master... At her best, Pearlman invigorates our curiosity about others, encouraging us to flip page after page just to see what a character ate for lunch... Pearlman's stories encourage us to sink deeply into them, and we become contented ghosts snooping on these unadorned, authentic lives... The Bottom Line: Pearlman may not be innovating the short-story form, but she's executing it perfectly."―Time Out New York "Prepare to be dazzled. Edith Pearlman's latest, elating work confirms her place as one of the great modern short-story writers... Vivacity and zest enliven every page. Body language is wittily caught... Personalities are keenly explored. Honeydew elatingly continues the celebration of life's diversity to which Binocular Vision so excitingly introduced us."―Sunday Times (UK)"Honeydew will afford an international audience another opportunity to enjoy Pearlman's distinctive and memorable fictions... 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...[these stories] share a 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 endeavor. She is wise, yes, but also unfailingly generous, even joyous... it certainly makes her fiction a fortifying pleasure to read."―Claire Messud, Financial Times"These elegant, compassionate stories bring 'regular' people to complex life. Pearlman's flawed characters demand your attention and win your heart."―People Magazine"HONEYDEW is a collection of work so vivid, so true, and so vital that the reader herself comes away all the more real. How can a story do what Pearlman's stories do? She is an incomparable master."―Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners and Stranger Things Happen"Edith Pearlman's work, so wise and witty, pierces right to the heart. Like Grace Paley and Penelope Fitzgerald, she can capture characters and their whole world in a few perfect lines: how does she do that? Her brilliant economy is matched only by her depth of feeling."―Andrea Barrett, author of Servants of the Map and Ship Fever"Edith Pearlman is a contemporary master of the short story, with an utterly distinctive voice-tartly observant, unfailingly compassionate, slyly amused. HONEYDEW is a stellar collection, a wide-ranging examination of Pearlman's favorite subjects-the mysteries of love and friendship, the indignities and compensations of growing older, and the knotty complexities of the human heart."―Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of Election, Little Children, and The Leftovers"To read an Edith Pearlman story is to sense a mysterious voice singing just under the surface of the prose; it is to be so beguiled by elegance and wit that the inexorable surging power of the story astonishes when it finally hits the reader. Honeydew is brilliant. Edith Pearlman is among the greatest of the greats."―Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author of Arcadia and The Monsters of TempletonPearlman returns with another collection of closely observed, often devastating stories . . . [She] writes with the wisdom of accumulated experience . . . Pearlman fills volumes with her economy of language . . . [and] serves up exemplary tales, lively and lovely."―Kirkus (Starred Review)"This affecting collection periscopes into small lives, expanding them with stunning subtlety... Magical and sensual."―Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"A generous collection of depth and sensitivity featuring a range of unusual characters."―O Magazine"Edith Pearlman's short stories have often been compared with John Updike's, and the comparison is apt...All of the powerful emotions are depicted in rich, controlled prose, one of the earmarks of a Pearlman story. Whether it be for carefully dissecting her characters' feelings or observing tiny details, Pearlman reveals her acute eye time and time again... In the tradition of Joyce, Chekhov, Updike and Munro, Pearlman's surprising, memorable stories are joys to behold."―Shelf Awareness"Pearlman repeatedly thrills us by opening up secret worlds, and it's because of the exquisite care with which these worlds are formed that we come to care deeps about her her people ("characters" just doesn't cut it)... Her stories hold a reverence for the magical, the anomalous, and the chance encounters all around us... Something about this book feels so urgent, so wise, and it had me turning pages until the wee hours."―The Millions
About the Author Edith Pearlman's previous collection, Binocular Vision, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Story Prize. She is the author of three other story collections. She has also received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story and her stories have been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Pushcart Prize. Pearlman lives with her husband in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful. Edith Pearlman has a quality of sight that exceeds that of ordinary human beings, especially in these exquisite stories. By Bookreporter Unless you are a regular reader of literary magazines like Ploughshares or Alaska Quarterly Review, there's a good chance you have never encountered the work of Edith Pearlman. That's your loss, as it was mine until I had the good fortune to pick up HONEYDEW. It's her first collection since the publication of BINOCULAR VISION, a volume of new and selected stories that won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2011 and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Story Prize. The shame is that it's taken Pearlman until her eighth decade to gain this kind of recognition, because the 20 stories in this collection attain a nearly uniform standard of excellence, both in their acute powers of observation and in the clean precision of their prose.The typical Pearlman story spans 10-15 pages (the longest clocks in at only 22). But instead of restricting her, that terseness allows her to display a talent for swift character development and economical story lines. Unlike Alice Munro, a writer with whom her work merits comparison both for its shrewd judgment of human character and for its predominant subject matter --- the emotional lives of women --- Pearlman's short stories generally are tightly focused in their time frame. Her characters are highly educated, self-aware and, for the most part, firmly settled in the upper reaches of the middle class.Representative of these qualities is "Puck," whose protagonist, Rennie, is the owner of an antiques store in Godolphin (a fictional Boston suburb that's the setting for several of these stories). In it, the appearance of a mysterious businessman rekindles a customer's memories of a long-ago love affair. It's a small gem that ends almost before it begins and invites rereading to discover how skillfully it's constructed. A companion story, "Assisted Living," traces the decline of Muffy Willis, a customer and unpaid assistant in Rennie's shop, whose privileged background doesn't shield her from the indignities of old age.One of the most touching stories is "Castle 4," which recounts a series of events occurring in and around a hospital. Zephyr Finn, a "regional anesthesiologist," offers a form of comfort to a dying patient that's probably unique in the annals of medicine. The story also illuminates the blossoming love between the hospital's middle-aged gift shop manager and a security officer whose disabled daughter carves intricate dolls, an endeavor that might stand as a metaphor for the meticulous craftsmanship of this tale."Fishwater" introduces Toby, a writer of "fictohistoriographia," novels that feature events and characters that are "Toby's doing, imagined by her dedicated intellect, unprovable, also undisprovable" and serve as an "antidote to the unbearable past." In this instance, she helps her nephew discover the truth of his parentage. In "Wait and See," the protagonist has the gift of pentachromacy, allowing him to discern colors in a way not available to those with normal sight. "Truth had nothing to do with the witness of the eyes," he concludes when confronted with the decision of whether or not he wants to continue to make use of this gift.But Pearlman's stories don't lack the leavening quality of humor. In "Blessed Harry," high school Latin teacher Myron Flaxbaum receives an invitation to deliver a lecture on "The Mystery of Life and Death" at a London college. Though it takes him some time to discover what's really behind the event, in the process he discovers a few useful truths about the subject matter he thinks he's supposed to address. "Her Cousin Jamie," the story of a disastrous affair between a middle-aged man and a much younger woman, ends on a wry and unexpected note. In "Cul-de-sac," another Godolphin story, a group of women have to learn how to deal with a garrulous immigrant neighbor.The collection's title story caps the book in satisfying fashion. It's the tale of Emily Knapp, an anorectic young woman who's a student at a Godolphin private day school and who witnesses the sexual activity of the school's unmarried headmistress with a surprising partner. The "honeydew" of the story's title is anything but the sweet green fruit, and Pearlman deftly ties it to Emily's plight.For all their quality, Pearlman's stories are not flawless. "The Descent of Happiness," the story of a doctor's house call, and "Flowers," which revolves around a series of flower deliveries, are little more than anecdotes. There's a tendency toward sameness in some of her character descriptions. "Broad brows" seem to predominate, and she's fond of colors like topaz, garnet, pewter and slate in a way that sometimes calls attention to their use.But like the power bestowed on the protagonist of "Wait and See," Edith Pearlman has a quality of sight that exceeds that of ordinary human beings. She brings it to bear consistently in these exquisite stories. "Happiness lengthens time," she writes. "Every day seemed as long as a novel. Every night a double feature." That's the kind of enduring pleasure awaiting your discovery in Pearlman's work.Reviewed by Harvey Freedenberg.
49 of 57 people found the following review helpful. A brilliant collection of short stories by Pearlman! Worth reading is you can handle mature topics! By Miss Patty I received this book early from another website I belong to. I hope this review is helpful to you.Pearlman's stories and incredibly descriptive, with an excellent use of symbolism, tone, and some surprisingly cynical surprises.The short stories primarily take place in Massachusetts, with Rennie as the main character in most.I must warn you there are some vivid accounts of some deeply troublesome topics, such as female circumcision. For me this was a bit shocking and far outside my comfort zone. However, it was handled in a tactful way and easy to digest once the initial shock wears off.Overall, the stories are quite intelligent and are based on the simplicity of regular people who experience a shocking or unexpected event/situation. Certainly an interesting, smart, and moving way to spend your time as a reader.My hat is off to Pearlman and hope you found this review helpful. I didn't want to give too much away. Certainly worth getting!!!
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful. Pearlman celebrates idiosyncracies in Honeydew By Barbara Edith Pearlman writes with lapidary precision. Every sentence is crafted, every description sly and exact. Every word entices: edile, dibble, epergne, exude all send me to the dictionary. A character enters the room “as if he were metal and had neglected to oil himself.” A man dies in war, leaving his wife a widow: “Each of his parts was severed from the others, and his whole – his former whole – was severed from Paige.” Her characters may deal with death, infidelity, anorexia, or fistula repair, but Pearlman does not indulge in angst.Nor does she romanticize her characters. “Fat warty Rabbi Goldstone lugged the set into the sickroom on one of his unwelcome visits and deposited all six volumes with a godly thump on the bed, as if the learning inside might overcome ills of the flesh. “ In fact, Pearlman delights in imperfection: “the slide of her nose was interrupted by a bump, adding beauty to a face,” or “Had no on ever told her that buckteeth were sexy?”What attracts Pearlman are people’s oddities, especially those that are not politically correct. “She was forty, the ideal age to relieve a sensitive [16 year old] boy of his virginity and satisfy his curiosity too.” “She needed a fur coat – otter, maybe,…but the animal rights students would put her in stocks.”Characters respond to each other in unexpected ways; enjoying lust from afar, confessing to a store stranger: “Calmed by her inexpressive face, people talked.” A pedicure session serves as a “secular confessional.” A watched woman enjoys being watched.Neither does Pearlman bother with conventional “plot lines.” She’ll drop into the middle of the story, a crucial incident -- death or sexual intercourse, or a remark that clarifies a relationship that may have been mystifying the reader. Unusual obsessions pop up at the most unexpected moments, all experienced in the most unusual ways. Here’s her wry comment on a character’s attraction to the leavenings of his pedicure: “He marveled at this exude like a small boy proud of his poop.”As for a “message,” Pearlman’s stories refuse to offer any. The closest might be the single observation that “all couples have their peculiarities,” or a Rilke quote defining love as “two solitudes” who “protect and touch and greet each other.” Pearlman expands our view of who those two solitudes might be.Her stories may not offer us reflections of ourselves. But I suspect that Pearlman does not write to elicit mere empathy in her readers. Instead, her gift may be like that of the attentive shopkeeper Rennie in “Puck,” who has “none of the softness of a therapist, none of the forgivingness of a clergyperson, none of the piled-up wisdom of an old family friend,” but who, by listening, gets her customers to reveal their idiosyncratic selves.
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