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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: manual for cleaning women
    sub title: selected stories
  title info:
    title: Short stories. Selections
  name:
    name part: Berlin, Lucia
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Emerson, Stephen
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: short story
  genre: Short stories.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiv, 403 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "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"--
  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.
  note: Lucia Berlin ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen Emerson ; foreword by Lydia Davis.
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Literary
  subject:
    topic: Short stories, American
  classification: PS3552.E72485 A6 2015
  classification: 813/.54
  classification: FIC029000 FIC019000
  identifier: 9780374202392
  identifier: 0374202397
  identifier: 9780374712860
  identifier: 0374712867
  identifier: 2014047119
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141219
    record change date: 20170928133858.0
    record identifier: in00003589368
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng