Honeydew : stories
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New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780316297226 (hbk.), 9780316297226, 0316297224
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Adult Fiction (3rd floor)
F PEARLMA, E
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Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780316297226 (hbk.), 9780316297226, 0316297224

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Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her latest work, gathered in this stunning collection of twenty new stories, is an occasion for celebration. The title story involves an affair, an illegitimate pregnancy, anorexia, and adolescent drug use, but the true excitement comes from the evocation of the interior lives of young Emily Knapp, who wishes she were a bug, and her inner circle. "The Golden Swan" transports the reader to a cruise ship with lavish buffets-and a surprise stowaway-while the lead story, "Tenderfoot," follows a widowed pedicurist searching for love with a new customer anguishing over his own buried trauma. Whether the characters we encounter are a special child with pentachromatic vision, a group of displaced Somali women adjusting to life in suburban Boston, 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 to us with unsurpassed generosity. In prose as knowing as it is poetic, Pearlman shines a light on small, devastatingly precise moments to reflect the beauty and grace found in everyday life. Both for its artistry and for the recognizable lives of the characters it renders so exquisitely and compassionately, Honeydew is a collection that will pull readers back time and again. These stories are a crowning achievement for a brilliant career and demonstrate once more that Pearlman is a master of the form whose vision is unfailingly wise and forgiving.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Pearlman, E. (2015). Honeydew: stories (First edition.). Little, Brown and Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Pearlman, Edith, 1936-. 2015. Honeydew: Stories. Little, Brown and Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Pearlman, Edith, 1936-. Honeydew: Stories Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Pearlman, Edith. Honeydew: Stories First edition., Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

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