Books by Lucia Berlin

The New York Times bestseller 'This selection of 43 stories should by all rights see Lucia Berlin as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver' - IndependentThe stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in twentieth-century American fiction.With extraordinary honesty and magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink and the mess and the pain and the beauty and the moments of surprise and of grace. Her voice is uniquely witty, anarchic and compassionate. Celebrated for many years by those in the know, she is about to become - a decade after her death - the writer everyone is talking about. The collection will be introduced by Lydia Davis.'With Lucia Berlin we are very far away from the parlours of Boston and New York and quite far away, too, from the fiction of manners, unless we are speaking of very bad manners . . . The writer Lucia Berlin most puts me in mind of is the late Richard Yates.' - LRB, 1999

Med rå humor og en helt særegen hverdagspoesi skildrer Lucia Berlin hårdtarbejdende kvinder: rengøringskoner, sygeplejersker, omstillingsdamer og alkoholiserede alenemødre. Det er knivskarpe noveller om fattigdom, misbrug, menneskelighed, kærlighed, uvidenhed – og overlevelse. Bogen er en del af Gyldendal Skala-serien. Gyldendal Skala er oversat skønlitteratur fra det 20. århundrede. Gyldendal Skala udgiver genopdagede hovedværker, også bøger, der tidligere har været glemt, misforstået eller dømt ude. Gyldendal Skala er nye klassikere til en ny tid.

A portrait of the literary sensation and short-story master Lucia Berlin, told through a compilation of sketches, letters from, and photos of, friends and lovers.

A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.