How to Fall: Stories

By Edith Pearlman

A “delicately eccentric” collection of stories from the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Binocular Vision (Publishers Weekly).
 
“Put [Pearlman’s] stories besides those of John Updike and Alice Munro. That’s where they belong.” —Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto
 
Spanning no fewer than four countries in sixty years, the sixteen buoyant, brilliantly constructed stories in this award-winning volume flesh out the myriad complexities of people who, at first glance, live unremarkable lives.
 
Widowers, old men, estranged spouses, young restaurant workers, career women and Jewish grandmothers are all at the center of Pearlman’s cool, studied observations. Each character is rendered with such unpredictable intricacy that they often astonish themselves just as much as the reader. Many of the stories either begin or wind their way back to one, mythical, two-by-three-mile Massachusetts town—Godolphin, a place that “called itself a town but was really a leafy wedge of Boston.”
 
“Her writing is intelligent, perceptive, funny and quite beautiful . . . Pearlman’s view of the world is large and compassionate, delivered through small, beautifully precise moments.” —Roxana Robinson, The New York Times Book Review

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Feb 1, 2005
• ISBN: 9781936747061

Edith Pearlman

Edith Pearlman (Providence, Rhode Island, 1936 - Brookline Massachusetts, 2023), au­tora de unos doscientos cincuenta cuentos apareci­dos en diversas revistas, publicó su primer libro de relatos, Vaquita and Other Stories, en 1996, cuando tenía sesenta años, y ganó el Premio Drue Heinz. Le siguieron Love Among the Greats and Other Stories (Premio Spokane) y How to Fall: Stories (Premio Mary McCarthy). En 2011 se reunió una antología de sus mejores relatos en Visión binocular, galardonado con los premios National Book Critics Circle Award, Julia Ward Howe, Harold U. Ribalow y Edward Lewis Wallant y finalista de varios más, entre ellos el National Book Award. Además fue elegido libro de ficción del año por el Sunday Times y la revista Foreword. La au­tora ha recibido también, en tres ocasiones, el O. Henry, el más prestigioso premio de cuentos esta­dounidense, y el PEN/Malamud por el conjunto de su obra. Con posterioridad a Visión binocular ha publi­cado su último libro de cuentos hasta el momento: Miel del desierto.