Cleaning Lady's Handbook

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

A captivating literary voice you've come across so late.
During the day, I worked as an emergency nurse, a cleaning lady, and taught writing in prison.
Writing these heart-pounding stories at night.
Oh my goodness, how did Lucia Berlin do it?
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★Lucia Berlin, the literary master who shocked the world literary world and became famous after her death★Known as "the best-kept secret of American literature"
★ Belated acclaim that makes the literary, publishing, and media communities "feel guilty" ★ Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Guardian, and Publishers Weekly ★ "The World's Best Book of the First 20 Years of the 21st Century" by Spain's El País
★The famous director Almodovar adapted the film of the same name★ Elena Ferrante, the author of "My Brilliant Friend", is a passionate reader
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A collection of short stories with deceptively misleading titles
Cleaning Lady's Manual Reading Instructions
100% Miracle Fabric | Composition: 40% Humor, 30% Melancholy, 30% Elegance. Machine wash at body temperature / Tumble dry gently / Lay flat to air-dry / Iron with care / Emotional dyeing / Can't put it down. ★ Minimalist, creative, three-dimensional washing machine cover. ★ Haze blue cotton paper with small iron-on elements and gold-stamped classic inner cover. ★ Washing machine knob + display. Catalog. ★ Cloth-like washing label bookmark.
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Welcome. You open this book and find yourself in a laundry named after Lucia Berlin.
There's no cleaning service here, though. Look, stories are spinning in all the washing machines, swirls of color.
You can't help but be drawn in, staring at the observation window.
Sad and miserable life is bubbling, but happiness is constantly flowing out and lighting up the world.
You just stare, intoxicated, your heart beating faster, you giggle, tears flow down your face, and you fall in love with the ordinary people in the story who are as contradictory, confused, and insignificant as you are. You fall in love with this ordinary, trivial, yet elegant life.
Thank you for visiting us. We do not provide cleaning services.
You read these stories, walk out of the laundry room feeling like a new person.
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Lucia Berlin may be the best writer you haven't heard of. —Publishers Weekly
She moves between lives, between worlds. She has read all the books and met all the people. Her stories lull you into a false sense of security, distract you with humor, and then, with a razor’s edge, sweep you across your skin, flinging you to an unexpected destination. —The Paris Review
In 'The Cleaning Lady's Handbook,' we witness the reappearance of a major American writer who was nearly forgotten in her own time. —The New York Times
All of Berlin's stories have a ring of truth, and it's clear she's brought her own experiences to bear. Lucia Berlin is freedom and intensity itself, a moving blend of the two. I've never read a female writer as intelligent, sensitive, tender, and brave as Lucia Berlin.
Her beauty, the darkness surrounding her work, and her painful experiences nourished her charm and legendary life. The Cleaning Lady's Handbook was warmly welcomed by critics (of course, also due to guilt). - Spain's El País
Lucia Berlin's stories are electric; they hum, vibrate, and crackle like live wires touching. In response, the reader's mind becomes active, intoxicated, ecstatic, and all the synapses are activated. This is the feeling we enjoy when we read—using our brains and feeling our hearts beat. —Author Lydia Davis Berlin, gifted, knew how good she was and didn't try too hard to get what she wanted, a combination that makes her even more alluring in later generations. Regardless, in her roller-coaster life, writing always found a way out. —Editor Bell

2021-09-01

北京十月文艺出版社

New Classic Culture

450

9787530221426