Edith pearlman books6/12/2023 ![]() "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. 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. Pearlman writes with warmth about the predicaments of being human. ![]() Her latest work, gathered in this stunning collection of twenty new stories, is an occasion for celebration. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and Frank O'Connor. Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award - and a nationwide bestseller. ![]() TOP TITLES FOR GIFT GIVING: "Chicago Tribune" "BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: "Wall Street Journal, " NPR, "Kirkus, " "Fresh Air" (Maureen Corrigan), " San Francisco Chronicle" NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR: "New York Times, Washington Post"TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR: " Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor ![]()
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