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Evening in Paradise

by Lucia Berlin
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Evocative tales of ordinary lives, extraordinary moments.

Lucia Berlin's "Evening in Paradise" draws you into the vivid realities of her characters with a candid authenticity that's both piercing and poetic. If you marvel at the nuanced storytelling of Raymond Carver, Berlin's prose will resonate with you, as she masterfully captures the bittersweet symphony of human experience with an unpolished beauty that will linger in your mind long after the last page.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Evening in Paradise

by Lucia Berlin
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ISBN: 9781509882298
Authors: Lucia Berlin
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2018-11-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Drama, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Asian Literature, Feminism, LGBTQ+, Literature, Race
Goodreads rating: 3.94
(rated by 4145 readers)

Description

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 . . . 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 Lucia Berlin’s remaining stories – a jewel-box follow-up for her hungry fans.
 

Evocative tales of ordinary lives, extraordinary moments.

Lucia Berlin's "Evening in Paradise" draws you into the vivid realities of her characters with a candid authenticity that's both piercing and poetic. If you marvel at the nuanced storytelling of Raymond Carver, Berlin's prose will resonate with you, as she masterfully captures the bittersweet symphony of human experience with an unpolished beauty that will linger in your mind long after the last page.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.