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A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Lucia BerlinPublish date:2016-08-02Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250094735ISBN-10:1250094739UPC:9781250094735Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCV5M3VFXK

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

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...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250094735ISBN-10:1250094739UPC:9781250094735Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCV5M3VFXK
Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her stories are inspired by her early childhood in various Western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago, Chile; three failed marriages; a lifelong problem with alcoholism; her years spent in Berkeley, New Mexico, and Mexico City; and the various jobs she later held to support her...
Publisher: Picador USA

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Lucia Berlin

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