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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2018-11-06
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN
- 9780374287597
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374287597
ISBN-13
9780374287597
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242619638
Product Key Features
Book Title
Welcome Home : a Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, Diaries & Journals, Letters, Literary, American / General
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-017727
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Berlin's nonfiction makes apparent her genius for taking personal, idiosyncratic scenes from her memory and crafting them into fiction that speaks to us all. We come to understand through Welcome Home that Berlin's fiction has catalyzed her memories into pointed, surprising short stories. Berlin converts memory into fiction, using fiction to revisit and revise memory . . . Her nonfiction allows us access to her process as her letters puzzle over questions of craft. Welcome Home reveals how much of her life is threaded through her fiction, and the restraint and power of the stories become more evident." -- Maggie Trapp, The Washington Post "A collection of autobiographical pieces that reflect Berlin's singularly peripatetic life . . . As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as the brightest diamond, but rather than blind you, they just encourage you to examine them even more closely, so you get lost in their depths." --Kristin Iversen, NYLON "[ Welcome Home ] gives a sense of the joyousness of [Berlin's] personality, which is as urgently expressed in all her writing as loneliness and desperation are. Her writing loves the world, lingers over details of touch and smell." -- Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic "Finding all the connections to the stories in the memoir is fun. The letters, the earliest written at age 11 and most in the author's mid-to-late 20s, offer some of that same pleasure but more powerfully underline the fact that the voice that seems so off-the-cuff and natural in the stories is something she consciously created; the version of her persona and her life that got into the stories is clarified and curated." -- Marion Winik, Newsday "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 "Tantalizing glimpses into the life of a recently-discovered writer . . . Berlin describes each home [where she lived] in exquisite, imagistic language . . . [ Welcome Home is] an excellent start to understanding a writer and her work." -- Kirkus Reviews "[In Welcome Home ,] Berlin's self-reflective and candid voice comes roaring through." -- Publishers Weekly, "In A Manual for Cleaning Women we witness the emergence of an important American writer, one who was mostly overlooked in her time. Ms. Berlin's stories make you marvel at the contingencies of our existence. She is the real deal. Her stories swoop low over towns and moods and minds." -Dwight Garner, The New York Times, "Tantalizing glimpses into the life of a recently-discovered writer . . . Berlin describes each home [where she lived] in exquisite, imagistic language . . . [ Welcome Home is] an excellent start to understanding a writer and her work." -- Kirkus Reviews "[In Welcome Home ,] Berlin's self-reflective and candid voice comes roaring through." --Publishers Weekly, "Berlin's nonfiction makes apparent her genius for taking personal, idiosyncratic scenes from her memory and crafting them into fiction that speaks to us all. We come to understand through Welcome Home that Berlin's fiction has catalyzed her memories into pointed, surprising short stories. Berlin converts memory into fiction, using fiction to revisit and revise memory . . . Her nonfiction allows us access to her process as her letters puzzle over questions of craft. Welcome Home reveals how much of her life is threaded through her fiction, and the restraint and power of the stories become more evident." -- Maggie Trapp, The Washington Post "A collection of autobiographical pieces that reflect Berlin's singularly peripatetic life . . . As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as the brightest diamond, but rather than blind you, they just encourage you to examine them even more closely, so you get lost in their depths." --Kristin Iversen, NYLON "[ Welcome Home ] gives a sense of the joyousness of [Berlin's] personality, which is as urgently expressed in all her writing as loneliness and desperation are. Her writing loves the world, lingers over details of touch and smell." -- Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic "There's a delicious pleasure in tracing the nonfictional origins of Berlin's fictions." -- Ellie Robins, Los Angeles Times "A fun and sometimes bombastic introduction to Berlin's roller-coaster life . . . Berlin documents each of her homes in the vibrant, image-heavy language of her short stories . . . These crisp vignettes are appetizers for the real meal. Raw, passionate, and delightfully unfiltered." -- Ryan Smernoff, Los Angeles Review of Books "Finding all the connections to the stories in the memoir is fun. The letters, the earliest written at age 11 and most in the author's mid-to-late 20s, offer some of that same pleasure but more powerfully underline the fact that the voice that seems so off-the-cuff and natural in the stories is something she consciously created; the version of her persona and her life that got into the stories is clarified and curated." -- Marion Winik, Newsday "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 "Tantalizing glimpses into the life of a recently-discovered writer . . . Berlin describes each home [where she lived] in exquisite, imagistic language . . . [ Welcome Home is] an excellent start to understanding a writer and her work." -- Kirkus Reviews "[In Welcome Home ,] Berlin's self-reflective and candid voice comes roaring through." -- Publishers Weekly, "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 "Tantalizing glimpses into the life of a recently-discovered writer . . . Berlin describes each home [where she lived] in exquisite, imagistic language . . . [ Welcome Home is] an excellent start to understanding a writer and her work." -- Kirkus Reviews "[In Welcome Home ,] Berlin's self-reflective and candid voice comes roaring through." -- Publishers Weekly, "A collection of autobiographical pieces that reflect Berlin's singularly peripatetic life . . . As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as the brightest diamond, but rather than blind you, they just encourage you to examine them even more closely, so you get lost in their depths." --Kristin Iversen, NYLON "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 "Tantalizing glimpses into the life of a recently-discovered writer . . . Berlin describes each home [where she lived] in exquisite, imagistic language . . . [ Welcome Home is] an excellent start to understanding a writer and her work." -- Kirkus Reviews "[In Welcome Home ,] Berlin's self-reflective and candid voice comes roaring through." -- Publishers Weekly, "Berlin's nonfiction makes apparent her genius for taking personal, idiosyncratic scenes from her memory and crafting them into fiction that speaks to us all. We come to understand through Welcome Home that Berlin's fiction has catalyzed her memories into pointed, surprising short stories. Berlin converts memory into fiction, using fiction to revisit and revise memory . . . Her nonfiction allows us access to her process as her letters puzzle over questions of craft. Welcome Home reveals how much of her life is threaded through her fiction, and the restraint and power of the stories become more evident." -- Maggie Trapp, The Washington Post "A collection of autobiographical pieces that reflect Berlin's singularly peripatetic life . . . As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as the brightest diamond, but rather than blind you, they just encourage you to examine them even more closely, so you get lost in their depths." --Kristin Iversen, NYLON "[ Welcome Home ] gives a sense of the joyousness of [Berlin's] personality, which is as urgently expressed in all her writing as loneliness and desperation are. Her writing loves the world, lingers over details of touch and smell." -- Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic "[Berlin's] lines are so clear-eyed, so remorseless; they leave the skin like an alcohol rub . . . a singular account of a kaleidoscopically complex past." -- Joanne O'Leary, Bookforum "There's a delicious pleasure in tracing the nonfictional origins of Berlin's fictions." -- Ellie Robins, Los Angeles Times "A fun and sometimes bombastic introduction to Berlin's roller-coaster life . . . Berlin documents each of her homes in the vibrant, image-heavy language of her short stories . . . These crisp vignettes are appetizers for the real meal. Raw, passionate, and delightfully unfiltered." -- Ryan Smernoff, Los Angeles Review of Books "Finding all the connections to the stories in the memoir is fun. The letters, the earliest written at age 11 and most in the author's mid-to-late 20s, offer some of that same pleasure but more powerfully underline the fact that the voice that seems so off-the-cuff and natural in the stories is something she consciously created; the version of her persona and her life that got into the stories is clarified and curated." -- Marion Winik, Newsday "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 "Tantalizing glimpses into the life of a recently-discovered writer . . . Berlin describes each home [where she lived] in exquisite, imagistic language . . . [ Welcome Home is] an excellent start to understanding a writer and her work." -- Kirkus Reviews "[In Welcome Home ,] Berlin's self-reflective and candid voice comes roaring through." -- Publishers Weekly, "Berlin's nonfiction makes apparent her genius for taking personal, idiosyncratic scenes from her memory and crafting them into fiction that speaks to us all. We come to understand through Welcome Home that Berlin's fiction has catalyzed her memories into pointed, surprising short stories. Berlin converts memory into fiction, using fiction to revisit and revise memory . . . Her nonfiction allows us access to her process as her letters puzzle over questions of craft. Welcome Home reveals how much of her life is threaded through her fiction, and the restraint and power of the stories become more evident." -- Maggie Trapp, The Washington Post "A collection of autobiographical pieces that reflect Berlin's singularly peripatetic life . . . As the case with her fiction, Berlin's pieces here are as faceted as the brightest diamond, but rather than blind you, they just encourage you to examine them even more closely, so you get lost in their depths." --Kristin Iversen, NYLON "[ Welcome Home ] gives a sense of the joyousness of [Berlin's] personality, which is as urgently expressed in all her writing as loneliness and desperation are. Her writing loves the world, lingers over details of touch and smell." -- Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic "An illuminating portrait of the artist and an insight into Berlin's documentary fiction . . . [Berlin] evokes the people and places that shaped her . . . She writes candidly about what she enjoyed and endured; when her narrative peters out in mid-sentence, she leaves her reader wanting more." -- The Economist "[Berlin's] lines are so clear-eyed, so remorseless; they leave the skin like an alcohol rub . . . a singular account of a kaleidoscopically complex past." -- Joanne O'Leary, Bookforum "There's a delicious pleasure in tracing the nonfictional origins of Berlin's fictions." -- Ellie Robins, Los Angeles Times "A fun and sometimes bombastic introduction to Berlin's roller-coaster life . . . Berlin documents each of her homes in the vibrant, image-heavy language of her short stories . . . These crisp vignettes are appetizers for the real meal. Raw, passionate, and delightfully unfiltered." -- Ryan Smernoff, Los Angeles Review of Books "Finding all the connections to the stories in the memoir is fun. The letters, the earliest written at age 11 and most in the author's mid-to-late 20s, offer some of that same pleasure but more powerfully underline the fact that the voice that seems so off-the-cuff and natural in the stories is something she consciously created; the version of her persona and her life that got into the stories is clarified and curated." -- Marion Winik, Newsday "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 "Tantalizing glimpses into the life of a recently-discovered writer . . . Berlin describes each home [where she lived] in exquisite, imagistic language . . . [ Welcome Home is] an excellent start to understanding a writer and her work." -- Kirkus Reviews "[In Welcome Home ,] Berlin's self-reflective and candid voice comes roaring through." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B
Synopsis
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 ., "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 .
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PS3552.E72485Z46
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