Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-1998
Author(s): Lucia Berlin
Homesick (1990) and So Long (1993), her immensely popular short story collections, established Lucia Berlin as the Sister of Mercy of contemporary fiction. In Where I Live Now, Berlin once again contemplates the human condition with a compassionate understanding. Berlin's vision is sometimes remorseful, sometimes resigned, always courageous and unmisgiving.The elusive nature of happiness is a compelling theme here: the survivors in these stories -- many of them society's marginal or excluded people, fighting alcohol or drug addiction, bearing emotional scars -- recognize it all too well. They mourn the lost dreams of youth, the roads not taken. They suffer the damage life inflicts: the ache of loneliness, the pain of separation, the fear of death.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- : Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
- : 0.358
- : 228mm X 152mm X 19mm
- : United States
- : 03 April 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lucia Berlin
- : Paperback
- : 813.54
- : 185
- : port.