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Tras años de injusto olvido, Alfaguara se suma al fenómeno editorial del descubrimiento de Lucia Berlin, todo un clásico de la narrativa estadounidense. 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, pe..more
Published March 2016 by Alfaguara (first published April 2015)
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DFMy tiny local branch of the Portland (Maine) Public Library had it in a 'recommended' book shelf - on audio. Love love love this book.
JohnI'm not sure that there is any evidence that sexism or classism or any other 'ism' was involved in causing her to be relatively obscure before the…moreI'm not sure that there is any evidence that sexism or classism or any other 'ism' was involved in causing her to be relatively obscure before the publication of MCW. Certainly there are plenty of published women authors out there.
I suspect that there are a number of other explanations. First, I understand that her entire oeuvre consists of 76 short stories. I don't believe that she ever wrote a novel. I think it is much harder for a short story writer to obtain wide recognition than for a novelist. Alice Munro and a few others are notable exceptions.
Second, Lucia was writing in the western United States rather than the east where she might have had better access to a major editor and publisher. Who was there to champion her work during her lifetime and help her gain a national reputation?
Third, the totality of MCW can (should?) be viewed as a memoir. The whole genre of non-celebrity memoirs, as I understand it, got started in the '90's with the publication of 'The Liars' Club' by Mary Karr. Since then, the genre has taken off. It may well be that the publishing world and reading public hadn't developed a taste for the genre at the time that Lucia was writing. In that sense, she may have been ahead of her time.
Finally, I understand that it's just plain hard for any author to get his or her work published and obtain wide recognition. Many authors who today are household names had great difficulties getting their work published. How many worthwhile works never see the light of day due to lack of a publisher?(less)
Recomendaciones para que #LeamosAutorasI suspect that there are a number of other explanations. First, I understand that her entire oeuvre consists of 76 short stories. I don't believe that she ever wrote a novel. I think it is much harder for a short story writer to obtain wide recognition than for a novelist. Alice Munro and a few others are notable exceptions.
Second, Lucia was writing in the western United States rather than the east where she might have had better access to a major editor and publisher. Who was there to champion her work during her lifetime and help her gain a national reputation?
Third, the totality of MCW can (should?) be viewed as a memoir. The whole genre of non-celebrity memoirs, as I understand it, got started in the '90's with the publication of 'The Liars' Club' by Mary Karr. Since then, the genre has taken off. It may well be that the publishing world and reading public hadn't developed a taste for the genre at the time that Lucia was writing. In that sense, she may have been ahead of her time.
Finally, I understand that it's just plain hard for any author to get his or her work published and obtain wide recognition. Many authors who today are household names had great difficulties getting their work published. How many worthwhile works never see the light of day due to lack of a publisher?(less)
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Jan 31, 2015Dave Cullen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
My foundation as a writer was shaped by these stories. I first read most of them in 1984, when I went to grad school in writing at U of Colorado in Boulder. Lucia was one of several wonderful profs I had there, but it was her stories alone that I read, with awe, and said, 'THAT is what I want to do!'
Quiet awe, by the way. That's the beauty of these stories. No kings or dukes or ladies in waiting losing their heads or fighting for the crown. No grand sweeping anything, no boisterous narrator, sho..more
Quiet awe, by the way. That's the beauty of these stories. No kings or dukes or ladies in waiting losing their heads or fighting for the crown. No grand sweeping anything, no boisterous narrator, sho..more
Mar 20, 2017Julie Christine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I know already, just four stories in, that this will be a 5-Star read for me. And that a few weeks from now—because I am reading slowly, to savor each bit— I will struggle to pick my favorites from the forty-two short stories collected here. So this review contains tidbits from those stories which most capture my heart and brain and I will update as I move along.
Angel's Laundromat
A laundromat . . . that transient, warm, sad space . . . where we watch others sorting, folding, watching us.. But..more
Angel's Laundromat
A laundromat . . . that transient, warm, sad space . . . where we watch others sorting, folding, watching us.. But..more
Aug 06, 2015Barbara Adamson rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I first met Lucia Berlin in 1991 as the significant other of one of her sons, who remains my closest friend. Though I knew she wrote short stories, it was something that was mentioned in passing and I never seemed to make the time to read them. I am thankful that I didn't. My age and experiences have just added to the thrill of discovering her writing now. I wish you could be here to see this, Lucia. Your time has come.
I was a little afraid to read this book. What if I didn't like it? Or think..more
I was a little afraid to read this book. What if I didn't like it? Or think..more
Apr 11, 2018da AL rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Warning: Skip the two introductions to the book, unless you want to know how many of the stories end before you read them. In the case of the audio book, skip ahead to track 15 of CD 1. What were the people who wrote the introductions, and then the people who let them do it, thinking?!
A beautiful collection of short stories that inspire compassion and imagination. The multiple audiobook readers did well. Given how the book is autobiographically inspired and the author was fluent in Spanish, it w..more
A beautiful collection of short stories that inspire compassion and imagination. The multiple audiobook readers did well. Given how the book is autobiographically inspired and the author was fluent in Spanish, it w..more
Nov 12, 2015Francesca Marciano rated it really liked it · review of another edition
What a wonderful discovery: how is it possible only few of us knew of Lucia Berlin? Hard core readers should all be in love with her without question. Her stories are pitch perfect: witty, unpredictable,funny, tragic, sad. Her humor is oblique, original. The stories are so personal, clearly autobiographical, and I wonder if there were a few - about her alcoholism so painful to read - that she may have not wanted to see them published. No matter how self destructive she may have been, there is al..more
Aug 26, 2015Julianne (Outlandish Lit) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: 2015-releases, wishlist, most-wanted, favorites
I wasn't going to review this book. I really wasn't. Because how does one even begin to go about describing what it feels like to be in love? Ok, maybe that's hyperbolic, but at the same time I'm feeling the same excitement and utter loss for words. I almost skipped this book because of all the hype. Because that's the kind of person I am. I figured there's no way I won't be disappointed by a book getting this much press and acclaim. But I am here to tell you that I, the coldest heart this side..more
Mar 16, 2016Silvanna rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Reading this collection of short stories was a little like going to MOMA and admiring a piece of modern art you know nothing about. At first you think, hmm, it's kinda neat, but then the harder you look the more the beauty shines through.
As the stories unfold in A Manual for Cleaning Women you realize they are all loosely connected, that there is a strand of consciousness. Gradually, Berlin's words begin to eat away at you.
I won't say I loved this book but what I will say is that her words haunt..more
Jan 17, 2019PattyMacDotComma rated it it was amazing · review of another editionAs the stories unfold in A Manual for Cleaning Women you realize they are all loosely connected, that there is a strand of consciousness. Gradually, Berlin's words begin to eat away at you.
I won't say I loved this book but what I will say is that her words haunt..more
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4.5★
“Afterward we went to a Chinese restaurant. But it was closing. ‘Yes, we always arrive when it’s closing. That’s when they order takeout pizza.’
How they had originally found this out I can’t imagine. They introduced me to the waiter and we gave him money. Then we sat around a big table with the waiters and chefs and dishwashers, eating pizzas and drinking Cokes. The lights were off; we ate by candlelight. They were all speaking Chinese, nodding to us as they passed around different kinds of..more
Aug 18, 2015Ellie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition“Afterward we went to a Chinese restaurant. But it was closing. ‘Yes, we always arrive when it’s closing. That’s when they order takeout pizza.’
How they had originally found this out I can’t imagine. They introduced me to the waiter and we gave him money. Then we sat around a big table with the waiters and chefs and dishwashers, eating pizzas and drinking Cokes. The lights were off; we ate by candlelight. They were all speaking Chinese, nodding to us as they passed around different kinds of..more
Shelves: fiction, favorites, literary, library, 2016indchallenge, kindle, short-story, 2016groupchallenge
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin is an amazingly wonderful collection of short stories. They share themes and characters so in some ways this collection shares some of the feeling of a novel but each story is a complete, vivid moment in itself. The people are so realized that I found myself thinking of them as real-more real in some ways than people who are actually alive since I got to know these people so much better than you can get to know most people you meet. E..more
Dec 15, 2016Janet rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This collection of short stories was recommended to me by Glen David Gold (Sunnyside, Carter Beats the Devil) on a recent trip to City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. It had been on my book list here for a while, but as soon as I got it, I ate it up in a way I usually don’t a short story collection. This collection has been drawn from several of her books published by the legendary Santa Rosa, California publisher Black Sparrow Press (and it’s always an event discovering another Black Sparro..more
Jan 27, 2016Laysee rated it really liked it · review of another edition
'A Manual For Cleaning Women' is a collection of 43 stories about women in all kinds of demanding jobs: cleaning woman, laundry hand, teacher, doctor's assistant, ER nurse, ward clerk, and switchboard operator. Most of these stories are autobiographical. The lives of these women - broken, wretched, heart-breaking - are veiled versions of Berlin's own. This comes close to a 5-star read.
Berlin had a tumultuous childhood, dysfunctional parents and grandparents who drink, three failed marriages, fou..more
Apr 24, 2018Paul Bryant rated it liked it · review of another edition
Least likely to say : raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, these are a few of my favourite things. Tra la la, life is a blast. Fling open the windows and breathe in the scent of gladiolas and nightingales.
Most likely to say : one pint of Jim Beam, two pints of Jim Beam, three pints of Jim Beam. Those were a few of my favourite things. But now they're gone. And it's five in the morning, and the stores aren't open yet.
Most likely to say : one pint of Jim Beam, two pints of Jim Beam, three pints of Jim Beam. Those were a few of my favourite things. But now they're gone. And it's five in the morning, and the stores aren't open yet.
May 30, 2016Lisa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Berlin writes as if she is telling the reader the stories of her life. The stories are quirky and messy and don't have easy conclusions. They feel true. She writes about everyday life; good times, hard times, mis-adventures and detours. The same characters keep showing up in these semi-autobiographical stories - Grandpa, Uncle John, her mother, her sister Sally, her husbands, her children - but the perspective keeps changing. You never know what to expect. The cumulative effect is --- expansive...more
Nov 17, 2015Wendy Greenberg rated it it was ok · review of another edition
I am obviously missing something as, try as I might, I couldn't find the delight/wonder/magnificence in these stories that every other reviewer seems to have found. The hugely overlong introduction and foreword hugely distracted me as expectations were raised so high (for me) that the stories could not possibly deliver..Maybe I need to return to this at another time..but really not keen
Aug 17, 2015Jason Diamond rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
There are so many stereotypical things I could say about this collection like the stories 'popped' off the pages and 'I couldn't put it down,' and all of them would be true. I felt like she was right in front of me telling me her story, that's how real these stories felt. Funny and biting, at times gritty and dark. I absolutely loved this.
Sep 28, 2016Amelia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I can’t overstate the importance of this book to my own writing. It strikes a perfect balance between precise language and thrilling thought. And it has so much life; the result of a woman who spent much of it cleaning houses, working in trauma wards, getting drunk and getting sober. Lucia Berlin goes up with Denis Johnson, Lydia Davis, and Barry Hannah in my short story dream team.
Sep 02, 2015Caroline rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Time stops when someone dies. Of course it stops for them, maybe, but for the mourners time runs amok. Death comes too soon. It forgets the tides, the days growing longer and shorter, the moon. It rips up the calendar.
Why isn’t this already on your to-read list? It’s the real deal, guys. Check out what that ‘, maybe,’ does.
I traveled through the southwest in the 1950s, I lived in Berkely in the 1970s, and she’s got those places and times nailed here. Thank God I didn’t live in a family like the..more
Jun 25, 2018Claire Fuller rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I really enjoyed most of these. They felt quite autobiographical, partly because they came back again and again to the same type of people, the same places in the world, the same human afflictions. I didn't mind that at all - it added a wonderful flavour to the book. Berlin's style is wonderful - observant, clear, detailed. Sometimes the endings of the stories didn't quite satisfy, and actually I think these could have been broken down into two volumes. There were almost too many stories to take..more
Jan 08, 2017Lorilin rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Description in one sentence or less:
A collection of stories about the rest of us.
Review Haiku:
Compared to the stars
We are so, so very small
And nearly as bright
:p
A collection of stories about the rest of us.
Review Haiku:
Compared to the stars
We are so, so very small
And nearly as bright
:p
Aug 13, 2015Mark rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
“I love houses, all the things they tell me, so that's one reason. I don't mind working as a cleaning woman. It's just like reading a book.”
Every once in awhile, you stumble on a book, that just reminds you, why books are special, why you have devoted endless minutes, hours and days, to the printed page. This amazing collection of stories, that compile the best work of Lucia Berlin, is one such book.
Many of these tales, are based on Berlin's life, gently linked stories, that show women, struggli..more
Every once in awhile, you stumble on a book, that just reminds you, why books are special, why you have devoted endless minutes, hours and days, to the printed page. This amazing collection of stories, that compile the best work of Lucia Berlin, is one such book.
Many of these tales, are based on Berlin's life, gently linked stories, that show women, struggli..more
Jul 30, 2015Sue Russell rated it really liked it · review of another edition
The best stories in this collection, which are many, rate a 5. I ate up this rather large book in short order. The stories are mostly autobiographical, according to what we learn from the two introductions, with variations on what 'really happened' to a Lucia Berlin-type of woman with a different name but a similar profile: married 3 times, 4 sons, difficult childhood, moved around a lot(settings include Alaska, Costa Rica, El Paso, Albuquerque, Oakland)alcoholism, subsistence jobs. Some of the..more
May 25, 2016Megan Baxter rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Reading this book feels like a strangely intimate act. The title is strangely apt in how it relates to this, where the reader is invited in to see someone's life on a material level, touch their things, see their surroundings, but with distance. You're not a friend, and these stories aren't for you. They exist, simply and sometimes harshly, resisting easy pulls of lessons or development.
Note: The rest of this review has been withheld due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You c..more
Note: The rest of this review has been withheld due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You c..more
Aug 19, 2018Lavinia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I can't make you read these stories, but if I could, I would.
This hidden (until recently) gem of American literature has been compared to Alice Munro, among other short story writers, and indeed, they share the same great voice, strong female characters disguised as domestic goddesses, and atmospheric stories, but Lucia Berlin's are also very vivid, quite dark and many times imbibed with alcohol, pain and substance abuse, which makes them way too real at times.
Go read them.
This hidden (until recently) gem of American literature has been compared to Alice Munro, among other short story writers, and indeed, they share the same great voice, strong female characters disguised as domestic goddesses, and atmospheric stories, but Lucia Berlin's are also very vivid, quite dark and many times imbibed with alcohol, pain and substance abuse, which makes them way too real at times.
Go read them.
Jul 20, 2016Eric rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Just super! She ranks with Hemingway and Carver as a short story writer. Painfully and uproariously honest and autobiographical. She lived an interesting life all over the Americas, from Idaho to Chile, went through addiction and recovery, battled scoliosis and cancer, loved numerous men, had four sons, survived childhood abuse, worked many occupations, and was a gregarious woman with friends in high and low places.
Aug 07, 2018Eric Buechel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Incredible. I wish I hadn’t finished. I’ll be returning to these stories again and again.
May 08, 2016Meg Tuite rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I am sad it took me so long to get to Lucia Berlin, but am so thankful that I have read this outstanding, wildass, vibrant writer!!! DAMN! I picked it up and couldn't put it down. These stories have the same central characters throughout taken from four separate collections. I am in LOVE with the narrator of all of these! After her death her son wrote: 'Ma wrote true stories, not necessarily autobiographical, but close enough for horseshoes.'
The stories are set in Mexico, New Mexico, New York, A..more
The stories are set in Mexico, New Mexico, New York, A..more
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Dec 03, 2015Teresa rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I have never read short stories like these. She was quite a writer! They grab you and don't let go. I don't know if they are all fictional because they feel so real ~ someone who really knows what it would've been like to experience these events. And, although they are short stories, the book seems to be organized in a chronological sequence so that you feel you are returning to certain characters or places after previous events have transpired. For example, several stories are about her sister..more
Aug 19, 2015Book Riot Community added it · review of another edition
Elizabeth McCracken, one of our greatest American writers, has been pushing this book, and since she led me to Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail by Kelly Luce, I read this forthcoming story collection as soon as I could! What a gem it is. This is a collection of Berlin’s best work. (She died in 2004.) A Manual for Cleaning Women contains gritty stories of the ordinary, the downtrodden, the struggling, that are made beautiful through her amazing writing. You’ll soon be hearing abo..more
Aug 24, 2015Alan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
read a couple of these already - terrific, meetings in laundrettes, moonlight trips to fish - all in luminous prose.
In some ways I'm sorry to have finished this book, I have lived with it for a couple of months and tried to slow down my reading so I could stay with the voice, but I speeded up as I started to long to read more stories, I couldn't wait. Sign of a great story teller. It is like being at her table, talking, gossiping, laughing; tales of bohemia, drugs, drunks, sex, cranes (the bird..more
Feb 01, 2015Dawn rated it it was amazingIn some ways I'm sorry to have finished this book, I have lived with it for a couple of months and tried to slow down my reading so I could stay with the voice, but I speeded up as I started to long to read more stories, I couldn't wait. Sign of a great story teller. It is like being at her table, talking, gossiping, laughing; tales of bohemia, drugs, drunks, sex, cranes (the bird..more
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· review of another editionRecommended to Dawn by: Dave Cullen
From page one to the very end, this book and these stories broke my heart and they took my breath away.
This is not a book to put back on the shelf. Not even in a place of honor. This is a book that will remain within arm's reach, to be picked up and read at a moment's notice, over and over again.
This is not a book to put back on the shelf. Not even in a place of honor. This is a book that will remain within arm's reach, to be picked up and read at a moment's notice, over and over again.
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Berlin began publishing relatively late in life, under the encouragement and sometimes tutelage of poet Ed Dorn. Her first small collection, Angels Laundromat was published in 1981, but her published stories were written as early as 1960. Several of her stories appeared in magazines such as The Atlantic and Saul Bellow’s little magazine The Noble Savage.
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