{"product_id":"how-to-fall-edith-pearlman-9781932511116","title":"How to Fall: Stories","description":"Edith Pearlman manages to combine subtlety with extravagance, understatement with spectacle, drawing our focus to the eccentricities of those who would prefer to remain unnoticed. . . . Confronted with unexpected obstacles, these characters exchange the blurring comfort of routine with spontaneity and improvisation . . . . Full of vivid, intricate, nuanced portraits, confidently focused, restrained and yet spirited, saturated with a powerful imaginative sympathy, How to Fall is a remarkable collection by a remarkable writer.\u003cbr\u003e--From the Foreword by Joanna Scott \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Fall\u003c\/i\u003e is a darkly humorous collection that welcomes the world's immense variety with confidence. Spanning no fewer than four countries in sixty years, these sixteen stories flesh out the complexities of people who, at first glance, live ordinary, 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 observation. 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdith Pearlman\u003c\/b\u003e has published over 100 stories in national magazines, literary journals, anthologies and online publications. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe O. Henry Prize\u003c\/i\u003e collection, \u003ci\u003eNew Stories from the South: The Year's Best\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pushcart Prize\u003c\/i\u003e collection. Her first collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eVaquita\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, and her second, \u003ci\u003eLove Among the Greats\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Spokane Prize for Fiction. She now lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edith Pearlman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1932511113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781932511116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.56w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/24\/2005 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2005 pg. 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/17\/2005 pg. 34","brand":"Edith Pearlman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937519534335,"sku":"9781932511116","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c8c64236-70a6-4df2-b625-c9b8f0809c10.jpg?v=1681430551","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-to-fall-edith-pearlman-9781932511116","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}