Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters

Berlin, Lucia

ISBN 10: 0374287597 / ISBN 13: 9780374287597

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0374287597-3-37333658

Inhaltsangabe:

Before Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home.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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her stories are inspired by her early childhood in various Western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago, Chile; three failed marriages; a lifelong problem with alcoholism; her years spent in Berkeley, New Mexico, and Mexico City; and the various jobs she later held to support her writing and her four sons. Sober and writing steadily by the 1990s, she took a visiting writer's post at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1994 and was soon promoted to associate professor. In 2001, in failing health, she moved to Southern California to be near her sons. She died in 2004 in Marina del Rey. Her posthumous collection, A Manual for Cleaning Women, was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2015.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected ...
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Good