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THE AUTHOR
Edith Pearlman
has published over one hundred stories in national magazines, literary journals, anthologies, and online publications. Her work has appeared in
The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize
collection,
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best,
and
The Pushcart Prize
collection. Her first collection of stories,
Vaquita
, won the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature, and her second,
Love Among The Greats,
won the Spokane Prize for Fiction.
Pearlman's short essays have appeared in the
The Atlantic Monthly, The Smithsonian Magazine, Preservation Magazine,
and
Yankee
. Her travel writing—about the Cotswolds, Budapest, Jerusalem, Paris, and Tokyo—has been published in
The New York Times
and elsewhere; but she is a New Englander by birth and preference. She grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, and now lives with her husband in Brookline, Massachusetts. She has two grown children.
Edith Pearlman has worked in a computer firm and a soup kitchen; she has served in Brookline's Town Meeting; her hobbies are reading, walking, and matchmaking.
Copyright © 2005 by Edith Pearlman
 
All rights reserved
 
No part of this book may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher. Please direct inquiries to:
Managing Editor
Sarabande Books, Inc.
2234 Dundee Road, Suite 200
Louisville, KY 40205
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pearlman, Edith, 1936–
“Winner of the 2003 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.”
eISBN : 978-1-936-74706-1
I. Title.
PS3566.E2187H69 2005
813'.54—dc22
2004006221
 
 
 
Manufactured in Canada
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
 
Sarabande Books is a nonprofit literary organization.
 
Partial funding has been provided by the Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency in the Commerce Cabinet, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
 

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