![]() Happily, I’ve since discovered, I can take comfort in the fact that Binocular Vision and its author seem to have taken even much of the mainstream literary establishment by surprise. How then, I kept wondering in making my way through one astonishingly understated tale after another, could it be that I’d never heard of Pearlman before my partner’s enthusiastic recommendation? ![]() ![]() In truth, there doesn’t seem to be a single recklessly placed word in the 34 stories-13 of them previously unpublished-of this, her most recent collection. That is why it was almost a relief to stumble upon the “cautious words” quote attributed to her and referenced in the title of this review. ![]() I have been trying to fathom what it is about Edith Pearlman’s marvelous Binocular Vision (Lookout Books, January 2011) that makes this story collection such a treasure. ![]()
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