Lucia Berlin

One of The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. International bestseller. A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. One of The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the Twenty-First Century and a classic of short fiction, Lucia Berlin's A Manual for Cleaning Women was a global...

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters, but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot. With an introduction from Lydia Davis Lucia Berlin's stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the...

One of The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Global bestseller. A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humour of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments...