UID:
kobvindex_ZLB34022097
ISBN:
9781574232301
Content:
"In 1981, John Martin published Lucia Berlin's first book of stories, and in 1993 her last. With the recent publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women, and the sustained critical acclaim it has received, Berlin has finally been recognized as a master of the short story, allowing her work to reach the broad audience it deserves. These two collections capture distilled moments of crisis or epiphany, placing the protagonists in moments of stress or personal strain, and all told in an almost offhand, matter of fact voice. Weaving through the places she loved—Chile, Mexico, the Southwest, and California—each story delivers a poignant moment that lingers in the mind, not resolved, not decoded, but resonating, as questions of the human condition always do, in the heart of the reader."
Content:
Rezension(1): "Lucia Berlin was an American short story writer. She had a small, devoted following, but did not reach a mass audience during her lifetime. She rose to sudden literary fame eleven years after her death, in August 2015, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux's publication of a volume of selected stories, A Manual For Cleaning Women, edited by Stephen Emerson. It hit The New York Times bestseller list in its second week, and within a few weeks, had outsold all her previous books combined. The collection was named to a large number of year-end lists, including the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2015. It was also a finalist for the Kirkus Prize."
Language:
English
URL:
https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5ff944f6-fc70-424e-9caf-6612f6c0d591&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
URL:
http://voebb.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=5FF944F6-FC70-424E-9CAF-6612F6C0D591
Author information:
Berlin, Lucia
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