A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be--their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves.--Lydia Davis, from the forewordA 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.

Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) produced outstanding but infrequent work. Her stories are inspired by her early years in numerous Western mining towns, her glamorous adolescent years in Santiago, Chile, three failed marriages, a lifetime alcoholism problem, her years in Berkeley, New Mexico, and Mexico City, and the various professions she later did to support her writing and her four boys. During the 1990s, she was sober and writing regularly that she accepted a visiting writer's position at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she was quickly promoted to associate professor. She moved to Southern California in 2001 because her health was failing and she wanted to be closer to her boys.

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ISBN 13	9781250094735
ISBN 10	1250094739
Title	A Manual for Cleaning Women
Author	Lucia Berlin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St Martin's Press
Year published	2016-08-02
Number of pages	432
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