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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.

A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin. 

Before Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home. The work consisted of more than 20 chapters that started in 1936 in Alaska and ended (prematurely) in 1966 in Southern Mexico. In our publication of Welcome Home, her son, Jeff Berlin, is filling in the gaps with photos and letters from her eventful, romantic, and tragic life. 

Med rå humor og en helt særegen hverdagspoesi skildrer Lucia Berlin hårdtarbejdende kvinder: rengøringskoner, sygeplejersker, omstillingsdamer og alkoholiserede alenemødre. Det er knivskarpe noveller om fattigdom, misbrug, menneskelighed, kærlighed, uvidenhed - og overlevelse. Bogen er en del af Gyldendal Skala-serien. Gyldendal Skala er oversat skønlitteratur fra det 20. århundrede. Gyldendal Skala udgiver genopdagede hovedværker, også bøger, der tidligere har været glemt, misforstået eller dømt ude. Gyldendal Skala er nye klassikere til en ny tid.

Sie gilt als das bestgehütete Geheimnis der amerikanischen Literatur. Lucia Berlin ist die Wiederentdeckung des Jahres und wird verglichen mit Raymond Carver, Richard Yates oder Grace Paley. Ihre Stories zeugen von einem unsteten Leben voller Brüche. Es sind Frauen wie sie, deren Schicksal sie festhält: Alleinerziehende Mütter, Alkoholikerinnen auf Entzug, Haushaltshilfen, Krankenschwestern und Sekretärinnen.

Una donna molto bella che ha avuto una vita difficile e la racconta in tanti piccoli quadri, protagonista la narratrice onnisciente o vari personaggi secondari, diversissimi tra loro: un vecchio indiano americano incontrato in una lavanderia; una ragazza giovanissima che scappa da una clinica messicana di aborti per ricche americane; la suora di una scuola cattolica; un'insegnante gay.