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Title: Evening in Paradise: More Stories
Author: BERLIN LUCIA
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 30/10/2018
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
Clearly a woman before her time, Lucia
Berlin started to write her six collections of
short stories in the early 1960s, but didn’t
see them published until the early ’80s.
Her work only achieved broad success
when A Manual for Cleaning Women was
published in 2015, 11 years after her
death. Now there’s a further selection of
her short fiction, published as Evening
in Paradise, while Welcome Home is
a collection of previously unpublished
autobiographical writing she was working
on at the time of her death, but which she
had begun 70 years earlier.
The publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin’s dazzling collection of short stories, marked the rediscovery of a writer whose talent had gone unremarked by many. The incredible reaction to Lucia’s writing – her ability to capture the beauty and ugliness that coexist in everyday lives, the extraordinary honesty and magnetism with which she draws on her own history to breathe life into her characters – included calls for her contribution to American literature to be as celebrated as that of Raymond Carver. Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from the remaining Berlin stories – a jewel box follow-up for Lucia Berlin’s hungry fans. ‘Lucia Berlin’s collection of short stories, A Manual for Cleaning Women, deserves all of the posthumous praise its author has received . . . Her work is being compared to Raymond Carver, for her similar oblique, colloquial style; her mordant humour; the recurrence of alcoholics; and her interest in the lives of working-class or marginalised people. But only Carver’s very final stories share Berlin’s eye for the sudden exaltation in ordinary lives, or her ability to shift the tone of an entire story with an unexpected sentence.’ Sarah Churchwell, ‘Best Books of 2015’, Guardian
ISBN: 9781509882298