* Buzzfeed (Best Books of Fall 2018) *īerlin's stories, largely autobiographical tales of working class life in the American West, slipped beneath the radar in her lifetime but galvanized contemporary readers. Thank god for the posthumous revival of Lucia Berlin - how sad it would be to have never experienced her distinctive, vibrant voice. Lucia Berlin is a genius and the swerves of her sentences sublime. Eli Goldstone, author of Strange Heart Beating

work is testimony to a kaleidoscopic life that would scare the sh*t out of most writers alive today.

Dwight Garner * New York Times *Ī fearless storyteller. Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize. One thing that makes Berlin so valuable is her gift for evoking the sweetness and earnestness of young women who fall in love. Her work can remind you of Raymond Carver's or Grace Paley's or Denis Johnson's. * Observer *Ī writer of tender, chaotic and careworn short stories. Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781509882298 Number of pages: 256 Weight: 382 g Dimensions: 223 x 144 x 28 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 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.Įvening in Paradise is a careful selection from Lucia Berlin's remaining stories - a jewel-box follow-up for her hungry fans. 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. Ranging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in Evening in Paradise Berlin writes about the good, the bad and everything in between: struggling young mothers, husbands who pack their bags and leave in the middle of the night, wives looking back at their first marriage from the distance of their second.

'Raw, elliptical, devilishly funny tales' Observer 'The chance to join ' the Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin'' New York Times

Evening in paradise by lucia berlin