A Manual for Cleaning Women - Selected Stories

Összefoglaló

One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century<BR><BR>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><BR>With an introduction from Lydia Davis<BR><BR>Lucia Berlin's stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women 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>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.