- American Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it.
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Classical in form, prestige, character-led and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Lucia Berlin
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Pan Macmillan, PAN MACMILLAN
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781250094735
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