A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Lucia Berlin, Stephen Emerson (editor), Lydia Davis (foreword)"I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, & 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
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 & melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats & halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators & struggling mothers, hitchhikers & bad Christians.
Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form & wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place.
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