Lucia Berlin
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Review of Evening in Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin
Hard living. Child rearing. Drug use. Wild desert landscapes. New Mexico, Paris, Mexico. Small town dramas, rocky relationships. Kids playing in dangerous locales. “Hillbillies.” “Gaunt” people. A young girl’s coming of age. Violent men. The tyranny of life without money. With her signature gorgeous prose, Berlin’s stories remain gloriously readable.…
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Review of A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
It was interesting reading these stories at the same time as the Collected Stories of Raymond Carver. There are some similarities, such as the slavery to alcohol, but Lucia Berlin’s have more humor, in my opinion. There is a great deal of personality to these tales. They are on par…
L. S. Popovich 