A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

by Lucia Berlin

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One of The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Global bestseller.

A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.

With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians.

Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place.

"Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves." --Lydia Davis

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1250094739

ISBN13:9781250094735

Release Date:August 2016

Publisher:Picador USA

Length:432 Pages

Weight:0.78 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"

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Addiction Family Dynamics Poverty Fiction Literature & Fiction

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