Honeydew
By: Edith Pearlman
Publisher: John Murray (Publishers)
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781444797046
Subjects: Interpersonal relations; Fiction
Description: The stories in Honeydew are unmistakably by Pearlman; whole lives in ten pages. They are minutely observant of people, of their foibles and failings, but also of their moments of kindness and truth. Whether the characters are Somalian women who've suffered circumcision, a special child with pentachromatic vision 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 with generosity.
Table of contents: title: Tenderfoot; title: Dream children; title: Castle 4; title: Stone; title: Her cousin jamie; title: Blessed Harry; title: Puck; title: Assisted living; title: What the ax forgets the tree remembers; title: The golden swan; title: Cul-de-sac; title: Deliverance; title: Fishwater; title: Wait and see; title: Flowers; title: Conveniences; title: Hat trick; title: Sonny; title: The descent of happiness; title: Honeydew.