Honeydew, stories, Edith Pearlman
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Honeydew, stories, Edith Pearlman
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
short stories
Main title
Honeydew
Oclc number
884571010
Responsibility statement
Edith Pearlman
Sub title
stories
Summary
Pearlman writes with warmth about the predicaments of being human. 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
Table Of Contents
Tenderfoot -- Dream children -- Castle 4 -- Stone -- Her cousin Jamie -- Blessed Harry -- Puck -- Assisted living -- What the ax forgets the tree remembers -- The golden swan -- Cul-de-sac -- Deliverance -- Fishwater -- Wait and see -- Flowers -- Conveniences -- Hat trick -- Sonny -- The descent of happiness -- Honeydew
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general
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