Homesick: New and Selected Stories
Berlin's first major collection gathers stories from 1960 to 1990 and shows how sharply she could turn fragments of ordinary life into fiction.
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Everyday life becomes intensely alive in these stories.
This collection brings together Berlin's best-known early stories and shows the breadth of her range. Domestic instability, work, addiction, and resilience all appear in a voice that is both spare and emotionally charged.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Published
- 1990-12-31
- Pages
- 280 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.86 x 2.11 x 22.66 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780876858158
- ISBN-10
- 0876858159
- Price
- 23630 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Single Author
Homesick collects many of the stories first found in Lucia Berlin's early books Angels Laundromat (Turtle Island), Phantom Pain (Tombouctou Press) and Safe And Sound (Poltroon Press) as well as Manual for Cleaning Women .
Lucia Berlin was a short story writer with a small, devoted following during her lifetime. She rose to sudden literary fame eleven years after her death, in 2015, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux’s publication of a volume of selected stories, A Manual For Cleaning Women , edited by Stephen Emerson. It hit the New York Times bestseller list and, within a few weeks, had outsold all her previous books combined.