A manual for cleaning women selected stories

"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 com...

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Main Author: Berlin, Lucia (Author)
Other Authors: Emerson, Stephen (Editor)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 anäo
  • 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
  • Panteoân 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.