A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

By Lucia Berlin

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250094739
• ISBN13: 9781250094735
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book

Amazing works. I could tell that a lot of these stories came from real life moments. I loved her writing and so did my professors. Reading her work has made me more contemplative in my own writing.

Discovered treasure

Some of the best short story writing I have found. She's just great.