Edith Pearlman - Böcker

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 Chek...

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The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The winning stories take place in such far-flung locales as a gorgeous sailboat in Hong Kong, a Cuban su...

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Winner of the 1996 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. To author Edith Pearlman, "The stories in Vaquita aim at an intimacy between writer and reader. That imagined reader wants to know who loves whom, who drinks what, and, mostly, who answers to wh...

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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 th...

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<p><b>'The best short story writer in the world' Susan Hill</b></p><p><b>'This book is a spectacular literary revelation' <i>Sunday Times</i></b></p><p><b>...

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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 exchan...

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Eine Schuldirektorin muss sich nicht nur um ein magersüchtiges Mÿdchen kümmern, sondern auch die Affÿre mit deren Vater geheimhalten. Da sie schwanger ist, wird es nur eine Frage der Zeit sein, bis man der alleinstehenden Frau Fragen stellt, d...

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Under fyrtio å r gav den amerikanska fö rfattaren Edith Pearlman, fö dd 1936, ut prisbelö nta novellsamlingar. Men det var fö rst 2010 som hon slog igenom med novellsamlingen Kikarseende. Kritikerna jublade och jämstä llde henne med Anton Tjechov ...

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