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Author:
Berlin, Lucia.
Title:
A manual for cleaning women : selected stories / Lucia Berlin ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen Emerson ; foreword by Lydia Davis.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
FarrarStraus and Giroux,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xxiv, 403 pages ; 22 cm
Subject:
FICTION / Short Stories (single author).
FICTION / Literary.
Short stories.
Other Authors:
Emerson, Stephen, editor.
Other Titles:
Short stories. Selections
Contents:
Homing. Dr. H. A. Moynihan -- Stars and saints -- A manual for cleaning women -- My jockey -- El Tim -- Point of view -- Her first detox -- Phantom pain -- Tiger bites -- Emergency room notebook, 1977 -- Temps perdu -- Carpe diem -- Toda luna, todo anäo -- Good and bad - Melina -- Unmanageable -- Electric car, El Paso -- Sex appeal -- Teenage punk -- Step -- Strays -- Grief -- Bluebonnets -- La vie en rose -- Macadam -- Dear Conchi -- Fool to cry -- Mourning -- Panteoân de Dolores -- So long -- A love affair -- Let me see you smile -- Mama -- Carmen -- Silence -- Mijito -- 502 -- Here it is Saturday -- B.F. and me -- Wait a minute -- Homing.
Summary:
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions." --Paul Metcalf A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melancholy, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday--uncovering moments of grace in the cafeterias and Laundromats of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Northern California upper classes, and from the perspective of a cleaning woman alone in a hotel dining room in Mexico City. The women of Berlin's stories are lost, but they are also strong, clever, and extraordinarily real. They are hitchhikers, hard workers, bad Christians. With the wit of Lorrie Moore and the grit of Raymond Carver, they navigate a world of jockeys, doctors, and switchboard operators. They laugh, they mourn, they drink. Berlin, a highly influential writer despite having published little in her lifetime, conjures these women from California, Mexico, and beyond. Lovers of the short story will not want to miss this remarkable collection from a master of the form"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0374202397 (hardcover)
9780374202392 (hardcover)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)898433447
LCCN:
2014047119
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)
KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)
RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)
SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
WKPE185 -- Cherokee Public Library (Cherokee)
CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)
ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)
SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)
CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)
EYPC755 -- Kingsley Public Library (Kingsley)
FWPE284 -- Manchester Public Library (Manchester)
TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)
CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)
GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)
BGPE251 -- Perry Public Library (Perry)
LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)
GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

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