num_pages: 244
description: A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.In 2015 FSG 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.Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from the remaining Berlin stories--a jewel box follow-up for Lucia Berlin's hungry fans.Foreword: The story is the thing / by Mark Berlin --The musical vanity boxes --Sometimes in summer --Andado: a Gothic romance --Dust to dust --Itinerary --Lead Street Albuquerque --Noel. Texas. 1956 --The adobe house with a tin roof --A foggy day --Cherry blossom time --Evening in Paradise --La Barca de la Ilusion --My life is an open book --The wives --Noel 1974 --The pony bar Oakland --Daughters --Rainy day --Our brother's keeper --Lost in the Louvre --Sombra --Luna nueva --A note on Lucia Berlin
language: English
title: Evening in Paradise: More Stories
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux