Description
| Product ID: | 9781529077223 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Title: | A Manual for Cleaning Women |
| Subtitle: | Selected Stories |
| Authors: | Author: Lucia Berlin |
| Page Count: | 432 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This collection of raw and remarkable short fiction saw Lucia Berlin, little known in her lifetime, finally become lauded as an important figure in American letters <p><b>Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books</b><br><br><i>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.<br></i><br>With an introduction from Lydia Davis<br><br>Lucia Berlin’s stories in <i>A Manual for Cleaning Women</i> make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction.<br><br> 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.<br><br> <b>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-02-17 |
