Edith Pearlman “Visione binoculare”
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Translation of Alberto Cristofori
winning in 2011 National Book Critics Award e il Pen/Malamud Award ha significato for Edith Pearlman trigger a chain mechanism which in a short time, with important milestone "New York Times Book Review"Who has approached Updike and Alice Munro, He has made Visione binoculare the book of Revelation 2012.
Scovered and almost 'holy' to seventy-five years in one place, Pearlman the exits for the first time in Italy with this collection: are stories set between Jerusalem, Central America, Tsarist Russia, the Nazi bombing of London, Europe up to Manhattan, the coasts of Maine and the suburbs of Boston. In them emerges as deeply human look of the great observatories of our time.
No matter what situation you find these characters - an unexpected love affair between two young cousins, an elderly couple who decides to give himself to petty theft in stores, the danger looming over the son of a wealthy couple -: Edith Pearlman He recounts their experiences with extraordinary sharpness of wit and mastery of language, but also with untiring and lucid optimism. true feelings bend to the sinuosity of his prose, a palette of colors that shade into each other with surprising continuity. Visione binoculare is the jewel of a master short story contemporary.
Edith Pearlman (Rhode Island, 1936) He won three O. Henry Prize, his stories have appeared in the best literary magazines and anthologies in the most famous American. She is the author of three collections of short stories: Vaquita, Love among the greats, and How to fall. Vive a Brookline nel Massachusetts.
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