Welcome home : a memoir with selected photographs and letters / Lucia Berlin ; edited and with a foreword by Jeff Berlin.
Material type:
TextCopyright date: ©2018Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: ix, 162 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780374287597
- 0374287597
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Biography | Berlin, L. B515 | Available | 33111009318250 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as the brightest diamond." --Kristin Iversen, NYLON
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE . Named a Fall Read by Buzzfeed, Vulture, Newsday and HuffPost
A compilation of sketches, photographs, and 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Before Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home .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 and ended (prematurely) in 1966 in southern Mexico. In our publication of Welcome Home , her son Jeff Berlin is filling in the gaps with photos and letters from her eventful, romantic, and 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 and the people she knew with all the style and wit and heart and humor that readers fell in love with in her stories. Combined with letters from and photos of friends and lovers, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to A Manual for Cleaning Women and Evening in Paradise .
Introduction: We begin in anticipation -- 1. Beginning and breakthroughs. Ars poetica : origin stories ; Sylvia Plath's surges ; Breakthroughs -- 2. Middles and mirrors. Mirror portraits ; Influences illuminated : francine J. harris ; A long career : W.S. Merwin -- 3. Ending and enduring. Rehearsals and rehashings ; Louise Glück's steady growth ; Endings.
"Letters, photographs, and diaries from the author of A Manual for Cleaning Women"-- Provided by publisher.
"Before Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home.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 and ended (prematurely) in 1966 in southern Mexico. In our publication of Welcome Home, her son Jeff Berlin is filling in the gaps with photos and letters from her eventful, romantic, and 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 and the people she knew with all the style and wit and heart and humor that readers fell in love with in her stories. Combined with letters from and photos of friends and lovers, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to A Manual for Cleaning Women and Evening in Paradise." -- Publisher's description