Evening in Paradise
01 November 2018Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'The chance to join "the Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin"' New York Times
'Raw, elliptical, devilishly funny tales' Observer
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,...
Details
01 November 2018256 pages
9781509882298Imprint: 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
