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 'This selection of 43 stories should by all rights see Lucia Berlin as
lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver' - Independent
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories - Lucia Berlin
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