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Evening in Paradise: More Stories
Contributor(s): Berlin, Lucia (Author)

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 ISBN: 0374279489     ISBN-13: 9780374279486
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
OUR PRICE: $22.10  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2018
* Out of Print *
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: 813.54
LCCN: 2018002535
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" L (0.80 lbs) 256 pages
Features: Dust Cover, Price on Product
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/15/2018 pg. 54
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2018 pg. 9
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2018 pg. 6
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2018 pg. 7
Publishers Weekly 09/10/2018
Library Journal 10/01/2018 pg. 56
 
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Publisher Description:

Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize. --Dwight Garner, The New York Times

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE. Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Kirkus, and Lit Hub. Named a Fall Read by Buzzfeed, ELLE, TIME, Nylon, The Boston Globe, Vulture, Newsday, HuffPost, Bustle, The A.V. Club, The Millions, BUST, Reinfery29, Fast Company and MyDomaine.

A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin

In 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper's Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015; and NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and other outlets gave the book rave reviews.

The book's author, Lucia Berlin, earned comparisons to Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Alice Munro, and Anton Chekhov. Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Berlin's remaining stories--twenty-two gems that showcase the gritty glamour that made readers fall in love with her. From Texas to Chile, Mexico to New York City, Berlin finds beauty in the darkest places and darkness in the seemingly pristine. Evening in Paradise is an essential piece of Berlin's oeuvre, a jewel-box follow-up for new and old fans.

Contributor Bio(s): Berlin, Lucia: - Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her stories are inspired by her early childhood in various Western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago, Chile; three failed marriages; a lifelong problem with alcoholism; her years spent in Berkeley, New Mexico, and Mexico City; and the various jobs she later held to support her writing and her four sons. Sober and writing steadily by the 1990s, she took a visiting writer's post at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1994 and was soon promoted to associate professor. In 2001, in failing health, she moved to Southern California to be near her sons. She died in 2004 in Marina del Rey. Her posthumous collection, A Manual for Cleaning Women, was named one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015.
 
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