BINOCULAR VISION
New and Selected Stories
By Edith Pearlman
375 pp. Lookout Books. Paper, $18.95.
"Pearlman writes about the predicaments — odd, wry, funny and painful — of being human. Her characters are sophisticated, highly literate, relatively affluent and often musical. They travel, they read, they go to museums and concerts: they take pleasure in what the world offers. They’re also principled, and moral responsibility plays an important part in their lives. Pearlman’s prose is smooth and poetic, and her world seems safe and engaging. So it’s arresting when, suddenly, almost imperceptibly, she slips emotion into the narrative, coloring it unexpectedly with deep or delicate hues."
Bron: The New York Times: Stories of Dislocation and Relocation/ ROXANA ROBINSON
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