Welcome Home A Memoir With Selected Photographs And Letters Lucia Berlin by Lucia Berlin, Jeff Berlin (editor) 9780374718329, 0374718326 instant download after payment.

“Long before the current autofiction craze, Lucia Berlin was spinning her day-to-day into powerfully spare prose that ached with brutal authenticity . . . these new volumes become a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of a long-neglected literary legend, baring the autobiographical material that filtered so forcefully into her fiction. The mystery of her fiction is not, it turns out, in the source of its inspiration. It is in how Berlin transformed her life into art that is as vital as the thing itself.” — Lauren Mechling, Vogue

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A compilation of sketches, photographs, & letters, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to the stories by Lucia Berlin

Before Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home. The work consisted of more than twenty chapters that started in 1936 in Alaska & ended (prematurely) in 1966 in southern Mexico. In our publication of Welcome Home, her son Jeff Berlin is filling in the gaps with photos & letters from her eventful, romantic, & tragic life.

From Alaska to Argentina, Kentucky to Mexico, New York City to Chile, Berlin’s world was wide. And the writing here is, as we’ve come to expect, dazzling. She describes the places she lived & the people she knew with all the style & wit & heart & humor that readers fell in love with in her stories. Combined with letters from & photos of friends & lovers, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to A Manual for Cleaning Women & Evening in Paradise.

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Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s, 1970s, & 1980s. Her stories are inspired by her early childhood in various Western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago, Chile; 3 failed marriages;...