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Evening In Paradise: More Stories
[Hardback - 2018]
lucia berlin
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Picador Uk | ISBN: 9781509882298 | Pages: 256
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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

About the Author

Berlin began publishing relatively late in life, under the encouragement and sometimes tutelage of poet Ed Dorn. Her first small collection,Angels Laundromatwas published in 1981, but her published stories were written as early as 1960. Several of her stories appeared in magazines such asThe Atlanticand Saul Bellow’s little magazineThe Noble Savage.Berlin published six collections of short stories, but most of her work can be found in three later volumes from Black Sparrow Books:Homesick: New and Selected Stories, So Long: Stories 1987-92andWhere I Live Now: Stories 1993-98.Berlin was never a bestseller, but was widely influential within the literary community. She aspired to Chekhov's objectivity and refusal to judge. She has also been widely compared to Raymond Carver and Richard Yates. One of her most memorable achievements was the stunning one-page story "My Jockey," which captured a world, a moment and a panoramic movement in five quick paragraphs. It won the Jack London Short Prize for 1985. Berlin also won an American Book Award in 1991 forHomesick, and was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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