
A Manual for Cleaning Women
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Lucia Berlin
"I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be - their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves." - Lydia Davis, from the foreword
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.
Listeners 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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What did you like best about A Manual for Cleaning Women? What did you like least?
I think this would have been much more enjoyable reading instead of listening. The stories jump around too much and it's hard to tell if some of the short stories are connected. I like the way it was written, but again it would have been much more suiting to read it through, because I believe it takes patience, undivided attention and dedication to enjoy it as an audio book. It's more of a heady book.What do you think your next listen will be?
Something a little more spicy, lively and inspiring.Would you be willing to try another one of the narrators’s performances?
No, I found the main women a little monotonous. Her performance fell flat and didn't give good opportunity for funny or dramatic material.Did A Manual for Cleaning Women inspire you to do anything?
Eh...not especially inspiring. Some really nice keepsake sayings and thoughts here and there, but not exceptionally provocative.Hard to get through
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Reads Like Nonfiction
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Lucia Berlin is so underappreciated
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gloriously written
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Evocative, Vibrant , leaves you with melancholy
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A whole book of gritty true-life stories turned out to be a little too much
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However I am perplexed to find that the multi billion dollar company behind the distribution of this audiobook is so understaffed that they are not able to provide a list of the NAMES OF THE INDIVIDUAL STORIES. Instead you get only this: chapter 1, chapter 2, Etc. Come on.
Perhaps this is the fault of the publisher? Either way, it shows no respect for the writer or the listener. Do better with your billions Amazon.
Good book. Lousy packaging.
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The writing
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Exquisite writing, lopsided performances
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The lives, struggles and small, precious victories of women you'll probably never know
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