Evening in Paradise
01 November 2018Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
The chance to join 'the Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin' (New York Times)
From the author of A Manual for Cleaning Women.
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...
Details
01 November 2018352 pages
9781509882328Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Wonderful . . . BrilliantTimes
[Evening in Paradise] shines with compassion and dark wit . . . raw, elliptical, devilishly funny tales.Observer
A writer of tender, chaotic and careworn short stories. Her work can remind you of Raymond Carver's or Grace Paley's or Denis Johnson's . . . One thing that makes Berlin so valuable is her gift for evoking the sweetness and earnestness of young women who fall in love . . . Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize.Dwight Garner, New York Times
A fearless storyteller . . . [Berlin's] work is testimony to a kaleidoscopic life that would scare the sh*t out of most writers alive today. I adore her.Eli Goldstone, author of Strange Heart Beating
