A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Type

Book

Authors

Lucia Berlin

ISBN 10

1250094739

ISBN 13

9781250094735

Tags

Short Stories, United States, Literary

Description

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. - from Amzon

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