Lucia Berlin (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. She is the author of the short story collection A Manual for Cleaning Women.
A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With 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. Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place.
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评分就是愛那種の不離不棄,我也是
评分#短篇小說集,就是感覺非常好看 雖然是小說,但是因為作者有智利和美國兩個國傢的很多經曆,所以寫的一些故事對我來說好像是看人類學的文章,會體現一些社會現實。 另外,作者經曆很豐富,筆法很鋒利,故事結局常常會有齣人意料的感覺,這一點讓我想到Alice Munro 好看到動手翻譯!
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评分It's really my cup of tea. I love these stories, beautiful and heartbreaking. I'm collecting her other books and can't wait to read all 77 stories.
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