A Manual for Cleaning Women - diskuze

One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyThe world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.With an introduction from Lydia DavisLucia 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, with a voice is witty, anarchic, compassionate, and completely unique.‘The 43 stories brought together in A Manual for Cleaning Women make a powerful claim for far wider recognition and celebration of her talents . . . Wonderful’ – The GuardianPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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