A Manual for Cleaning Women

12.29

Selected stories by ‘literary genius’ Lucia Berlin.

Description

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS

The 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 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, with a voice is witty, anarchic, compassionate, and completely unique.

Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Additional information

Weight0.302 kg
Dimensions19.7 × 13 × 2.9 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

432

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

813.54 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K