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03009aam a2200325Ii 4500 001 AC9A3F4C159A11EA89BB964697128E48 003 SILO 005 20191203010044 008 150820t20162015nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781250094735 020 $a 1250094739 035 $a (OCoLC)918994694 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d ZQP $d OCLCF $d YBM $d IMN $d CGP $d KMS $d S1C $d OWU $d SILO 050 $a PS3552.E72485 $b A6 2016 100 1 $a Berlin, Lucia, $e author 245 12 $a A manual for cleaning women : $b selected stories / $c Lucia Berlin ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen Emerson ; foreword by Lydia Davis 250 $a First Picador edition 264 1 $a New York : $b Picador, $c 2016 300 $a xxvi, 403 pages ; 22 cm 505 00 $t Homing $r Stephen Emerson -- $t Introduction / $r Stephen Emerson -- $t Angel's laundromat -- $t Dr. H. A. Moynihan -- $t Stars and saints -- $t A manual for cleaning women -- $t My jockey -- $t El Tim -- $t Point of view -- $t Her first detox -- $t Phantom pain -- $t Tiger bites -- $t Emergency room notebook -- $t Temps perdu -- $t Carpe diem -- $t Toda luna, Todo Ano -- $t Good and bad -- $t Melina -- $t Friends -- $t Unmanageable -- $t Electric car, El Paso -- $t Sex appeal -- $t Teenage punk -- $t Step -- $t Strays -- $t Grief -- $t Bluebonnets -- $t La vie en rose -- $t Macadam -- $t Dear Conchi -- $t Fool to cry -- $t Mourning -- $t PanteoÌn de Dolores -- $t So long -- $t A love affair -- $t Let me see you smile -- $t Mama -- $t Carmen -- $t Silence -- $t Mijito -- $t 502 -- $t Here it is Saturday -- $t B.F. and me -- $t Wait a minute -- $t Homing 520 $a "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" -- $c Provided by publisher 650 0 $a Short stories, American 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Emerson, Stephen, $e author of introduction $e author of introduction 700 1 $a Davis, Lydia, $d 1947- $e author of foreword 941 $a 3 952 $l CLPC792 $d 20220304010158.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508022005.0 952 $l ESPD725 $d 20191203011505.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AC9A3F4C159A11EA89BB964697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search