A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Selected Stories

Cover Art for 9781250094735, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
ISBN: 9781250094735
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 2 August, 2016
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions. - Paul Metcalf 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.For readers of Lydia Davis and Alice Munro

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