Name: Evening in Paradise: More Stories
SKU: 52095451
Price: 373.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Berlin, Lucia
ISBN: 9781250234865

portada Evening in Paradise: More Stories

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lucia Berlin

Publisher

Picador

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6x13.5x2 cm

Weight

0.22 kg.

ISBN13

9781250234865

Synopsis "Evening in Paradise: More Stories "

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

Lucia Berlin

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(1936-2004) published her first stories at twenty-four. All her literature is inspired by her own memories: her childhood in various mining towns in Idaho, Kentucky, and Montana, her glamorous adolescence in Santiago de Chile, her stays in El Paso, New York, Mexico, or California, her three failed marriages, her alcoholism, or the various jobs she held to support her four children: nurse, telephone operator, cleaner, writing teacher at various universities and in a prison. She published six books of stories and has been awarded numerous times.

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