{"product_id":"a-manual-for-cleaning-women-selected-stories-9781250094735","title":"A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times'\u003c\/i\u003e 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Global bestseller. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Manual for Cleaning Women\u003c\/i\u003e compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReaders will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves.\" --Lydia Davis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lucia Berlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/02\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250094735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucia Berlin \u003c\/b\u003e(1936-2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her stories are inspired by her early childhood in various Western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago, Chile; three failed marriages; a lifelong problem with alcoholism; her years spent in Berkeley, New Mexico, and Mexico City; and the various jobs she later held to support her writing and her four sons. Sober and writing steadily by the 1990s, she took a visiting writer's post at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1994 and was soon promoted to associate professor. In 2001, in failing health, she moved to Southern California to be near her sons. She died in 2004 in Marina del Rey. Her posthumous collection, \u003ci\u003e A Manual for Cleaning Women\u003c\/i\u003e, was named one of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e's Ten Best Books of 2015.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44697613533299,"sku":"9781250094735","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_5d9e9675-9a63-487b-a9d7-645f66672d6e.jpg?v=1775243149","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/a-manual-for-cleaning-women-selected-stories-9781250094735","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}