New York Times Lucia Berlin's collection of short stories, A Manual for Cleaning Women, deserves all of the posthumous praise its author has received. John Self Independent In A Manual for Cleaning Women we witness the emergence of an important American writer, one who was mostly overlooked in her time. should by all rights see her as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver. The writer Lucia Berlin most puts me in mind of is the late Richard Yates.' LRB, 1999 'With Lucia Berlin we are very far away from the parlours of Boston and New York and quite far away, too, from the fiction of manners, unless we are speaking of very bad manners. The collection will be introduced by Lydia Davis. Celebrated for many years by those in the know, she is about to become - a decade after her death - the writer everyone is talking about. Her voice is uniquely witty, anarchic and compassionate. 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. The New York Times bestseller 'This selection of 43 stories should by all rights see Lucia Berlin as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver' Independent The stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction. Print A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
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