Love Among the Greats

About this book

Winner of the first annual Spokane Prize for Short Fiction Love Among the Greats is a magnificent world tour of characters tones and fictional structures all of them brought with a stunning restraint and clarity reminiscent of Joyces Dubliners. Edith Pearlmans characters are children old women young men rabbis toy makers lovers invalids immigrants schmoozers angels and fools; all of them perfectly real and accessible all of them drawn with a kind of comic quietude that only excellent writers can sustain.