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A Manual for Cleaning Women
- Selected Stories
- By: Lucia Berlin
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera, Dawn Harvey, Carol Monda, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
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A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers, and bad Christians.
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Exquisite writing, lopsided performances
- By Sazafrass on 03-02-16
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A Manual for Cleaning Women
- Selected Stories
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera, Dawn Harvey, Carol Monda, Hillary Huber, Bernadette Dunne, Kyla Garcia
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-30-15
- Language: English
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Manual para mujeres de la limpieza [Manual for Cleaning Women]
- By: Lucia Berlin
- Narrated by: Macarena Berlín
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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Con su inigualable toque de humor y melancolía, Berlin se hace eco de su vida, asombrosa y convulsa, para crear verdaderos milagros literarios con episodios del día a día. Las mujeres de sus relatos están desorientadas, pero al mismo tiempo son fuertes, inteligentes y, sobre todo extraordinariamente reales. Ríen, lloran, aman, beben: sobreviven.
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maravilloso
- By Alba on 03-28-24
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Manual para mujeres de la limpieza [Manual for Cleaning Women]
- Narrated by: Macarena Berlín
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-24-19
- Language: Spanish
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Evening in Paradise
- By: Lucia Berlin
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.
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Tapestry of color and grit
- By rich collier on 11-19-18
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Evening in Paradise
- Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 11-06-18
- Language: English
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Una noche en el paraíso [Evening in Paradise]
- By: Lucia Berlin
- Narrated by: Sol de la Barreda
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Hace pocos años, una colección de relatos de una escritora ya desaparecida y casi olvidada sacudió el panorama literario mundial. Era Manual para mujeres de la limpieza, de Lucia Berlin, quien alcanzó entonces el lugar que le correspondía: se convirtió en la escritora favorita de la prensa y los lectores, el título fue libro del año para los medios y su peculiar estilo se vio comparado con el de Raymond Carver o Charles Bukowski.
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One of my favorite writers
- By TOLE on 09-22-23
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Una noche en el paraíso [Evening in Paradise]
- Narrated by: Sol de la Barreda
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-22-19
- Language: Spanish
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