A Manual for Cleaning Women

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The New York Times bestseller.

‘This selection of 43 stories should by all rights see Lucia Berlin as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver’ – Independent

Introduced by Lydia Davis, Lucia Berlin’s stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction.

With extraordinary honesty and magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink and the mess and the pain and the beauty and the moments of surprise and of grace. Her voice is uniquely witty, anarchic and compassionate.

‘With Lucia Berlin we are very far away from the parlours of Boston and New York and quite far away, too, from the fiction of manners, unless we are speaking of very bad manners . . . The writer Lucia Berlin most puts me in mind of is the late Richard Yates.’ – LRB, 1999

ISBN: 9781447294894

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Selected stories by ‘literary genius’ Lucia Berlin.

Additional information

Weight0.311 kg
Dimensions19.7 × 13 × 2.6 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xxiv, 403

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

813.54 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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