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Auteur(s) : Berlin, Lucia (1936-2004)
Titre(s) : A manual for cleaning women [Texte imprimé] : selected stories / Lucia Berlin ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen Emerson ; foreword by Lydia Davis
Édition : First edition
Publication : New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXIV-403 p.) ; 22 cm
Comprend : Angel's laundromat -- ; Dr. H.A. Moynihan -- ; Stars and saints -- ; A manual for
cleaning women -- ; My jockey -- ; El Tim -- ; Point of view -- ; Her first detox
-- ; Phantom pain -- ; Tiger bites -- ; Emergency room notebook, 1977 -- ; Temps perdu
-- ; Carpe diem -- ; Toda luna, todo año -- ; Good and bad -- ; Melina -- ; Friends
-- ; Unmanageable -- ; Electric car, El Paso -- ; Sex appeal -- ; Teenage punk --
; Step -- ; Strays -- ; Grief -- ; Bluebonnets -- ; La vie en rose -- ; Macadam --
; Dear Conchi -- ; Fool to cry -- ; Mourning -- ; Panteón de Dolores -- ; So long
-- ; A love affair -- ; Let me see you smile -- ; Mama -- ; Carmen -- ; Silence --
; Mijito -- ; 502 -- ; Here it is Saturday -- ; B.F. and me -- ; Wait a minute --
; Homing.
Note(s) : "Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis)
"In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets.
That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions." --Paul Metcalf A Manual for Cleaning
Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With
her trademark blend of humor and melancholy, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday--uncovering
moments of grace in the cafeterias and Laundromats of the American Southwest, in the
homes of the Northern California upper classes, and from the perspective of a cleaning
woman alone in a hotel dining room in Mexico City. The women of Berlin's stories are
lost, but they are also strong, clever, and extraordinarily real. They are hitchhikers,
hard workers, bad Christians. With the wit of Lorrie Moore and the grit of Raymond
Carver, they navigate a world of jockeys, doctors, and switchboard operators. They
laugh, they mourn, they drink. Berlin, a highly influential writer despite having
published little in her lifetime, conjures these women from California, Mexico, and
beyond. Lovers of the short story will not want to miss this remarkable collection
from a master of the form"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Emerson, Stephen. Éditeur scientifique
Davis, Lydia (1947-....). Préfacier
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780374202392 (cloth). - ISBN 0374202397 (cloth). - ISBN 9780374712860 (erroné)
(ebook). - ISBN 0374712867 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb444995004
Notice n° :
FRBNF44499500
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