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A Manual for Cleaning Women - Picador Collection

Englisch · Taschenbuch

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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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s, '70s and '80s. Her stories are culled from 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, including as a high-school teacher, a switchboard operator, a physician's assistant, and a cleaning woman. She published several short story collections including Angels Laundromat and Homesick, and several of her previously published stories are collected together in New York Times Bestseller, A Manual For Cleaning Women.

Zusammenfassung

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

Vorwort

Selected stories by 'literary genius' Lucia Berlin.

Zusatztext

Begin reading a Berlin short story and you know immediately that you are in the presence of a unique and searing literary force . . . This revelatory volume now brings her forward to stand beside her peers.

Produktdetails

Autoren Lucia Berlin, Berlin Lucia
Mitarbeit Stephen Emerson (Herausgeber)
Verlag Picador Uk
 
Sprache Englisch
Altersempfehlung ab 18 Jahren
Produktform Taschenbuch
Erschienen 28.02.2022
 
EAN 9781529077223
ISBN 978-1-5290-7722-3
Seiten 399
Abmessung 129 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
Serien Picador Collection
50YO
Themen Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur

FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Interior life, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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