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    Evening in Paradise: More Stories
    Evening in Paradise: More Stories
    Evening in Paradise: More Stories
    Audiobook9 hours

    Evening in Paradise: More Stories

    Written by Lucia Berlin

    Narrated by Kyla Garcia

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    About this audiobook

    A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin

    In 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper’s Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015; and NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and other outlets gave the book rave reviews.

    The book’s author, Lucia Berlin, earned comparisons to Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Alice Munro, and Anton Chekhov. Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Berlin’s remaining stories―twenty-two gems that showcase the gritty glamour that made readers fall in love with her. From Texas to Chile, Mexico to New York City, Berlin finds beauty in the darkest places and darkness in the seemingly pristine. Evening in Paradise is an essential piece of Berlin’s oeuvre, a jewel-box follow-up for new and old fans.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlackstone Publishing
    Release dateNov 6, 2018
    ISBN9781538586778
    Evening in Paradise: More Stories
    Author

    Lucia Berlin

    Lucia Berlin (1936–2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her stories are inspired by her early childhood in various western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago, Chile; three failed marriages; a long-term problem with alcoholism; her years spent in Berkeley, New Mexico, and Mexico City; and the various jobs she later held to support her writing and her four sons. Sober and writing steadily by the 1990s, she took a visiting writer’s post at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1994 and was soon promoted to associate professor. In 2001, in failing health, she moved to Southern California to be near her sons. She died in 2004 in Marina del Rey. Her first posthumous collection, A Manual for Cleaning Women, was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2015.

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    • 4/5

      Jan 3, 2023

      Great stories, great characters. Similar to the stories in “Manual for Cleaning Women” but maybe a little mor uneven. She clearly had an amazing life and could see deeply into people who are ignored by many writers.
    • 4/5

      Jun 3, 2020

      Lucia Berlin's stories always make me feel like I'm there living the narrator's life, too, whether it's running around on the border or raising kids with an alcoholic. I do think this collection suffered from the fact that it wasn't intended by the author to be a collection, which "A Manual for Cleaning Women" didn't, perhaps because they were her stronger stories as determined by the publisher. Even though this collection is kind of a "here are the rest!" kind of grouping, many of the stories were beautiful, and I still recommend it to anyone who enjoyed "A Manual."
    • 3/5

      Apr 4, 2019

      This was a heavy-set collection of stories based around the various relationship dynamics that, I think from the biographical information I read, Berlin experienced in her lifetime: the mining towns, the yearning for greater things, the isolation. All of it is there and it is a stark and revealing portrait encompassing who Berlin was and the type of people that composed her world.

      A decent collection: 3 stars.