Manual for Cleaning Women : Selected Stories

Berlin, Lucia; Emerson, Stephen (EDT); Davis, Lydia (FRW)

ISBN 10: 1250094739 / ISBN 13: 9781250094735

Edité par Picador, 2016

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• Titre: Manual for Cleaning Women : Selected Stories
• Éditeur: Picador
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1250094739
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781250094735
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: good

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Synopsis

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

À propos de l?auteur

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 writing and her four sons. Sober and writing steadily by the 1990s, she took a visiting writer's post at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1994 and was soon promoted to associate professor. In 2001, in failing health, she moved to Southern California to be near her sons. She died in 2004 in Marina del Rey. Her posthumous collection, A Manual for Cleaning Women, was named one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015.