5 fiction finalists for the 2011 National Book Award

The five books in the running for the 2011 National Book Award for fiction

4. "Binocular Vision," by Edith Pearlman

The short stories in this collection by Edith Pearlman – 21 previously published stories and 13 new ones – have settings settings ranging from fictional Godolphin, Mass., to Jerusalem, Latin America, and Tsarist Russia. Monitor critic Yvonne Zipp says "that Pearlman writes with a kind of serene precision that would astonish any writer."

(Monitor review, 3/1/11)

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