Status
Checked out
Genres
Publication
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Description
In this collection of short stories, Berlin showcased the gritty glamour that made readers fall in love with her. She finds beauty in the darkest places... and darkness in the seemingly pristine. -- adapted from jacket
User reviews
LibraryThing member nancyjean19
Lucia Berlin's stories always make me feel like I'm there living the narrator's life, too, whether it's running around on the border or raising kids with an alcoholic. I do think this collection suffered from the fact that it wasn't intended by the author to be a collection, which "A Manual for
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Cleaning Women" didn't, perhaps because they were her stronger stories as determined by the publisher. Even though this collection is kind of a "here are the rest!" kind of grouping, many of the stories were beautiful, and I still recommend it to anyone who enjoyed "A Manual." Show Less
LibraryThing member DanielSTJ
This was a heavy-set collection of stories based around the various relationship dynamics that, I think from the biographical information I read, Berlin experienced in her lifetime: the mining towns, the yearning for greater things, the isolation. All of it is there and it is a stark and revealing
A decent collection: 3 stars.
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portrait encompassing who Berlin was and the type of people that composed her world.A decent collection: 3 stars.
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LibraryThing member steve02476
Great stories, great characters. Similar to the stories in “Manual for Cleaning Women” but maybe a little mor uneven. She clearly had an amazing life and could see deeply into people who are ignored by many writers.
Awards
Boston Globe Best Book (Fiction — 2018)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year (Fiction — 2018)
Language
Original publication date
2018
ISBN
9780374279486
Local notes
Fiction