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(0)Lucia Berlin
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FPPL 2023 - Elizabeth Wetmore's Recs
OBD Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Century (So Far): Fiction - Adult
OBD NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - ADULT
OBD Short Story Collections - ADULT
OBD Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Century (So Far): Fiction - Adult
OBD NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - ADULT
OBD Short Story Collections - ADULT
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"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis). "In the field of short fiction, Lucia Berlin is one of America's best kept secrets. That's it. Flat out. No mitigating conditions."--Paul Metcalf. A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With her trademark blend of humor and melancholy, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday--uncovering moments of grace...
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"Berlin probably deserved a Pulitzer Prize." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The Boston Globe, Kirkus, and Lit Hub. Named a Fall Read by Buzzfeed, ELLE, TIME, Nylon, The Boston Globe, Vulture, Newsday, HuffPost, Bustle, The A.V. Club, The Millions, BUST, Reinfery29, Fast Company
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English
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"Love, Loosha reveals the lives and literary obsessions of two great American writers through their frequent letters to each other. It details their writing habits and expressions, how they invented new words or offered new spellings to emphasize and reflect tone, dialect, accent, and dramatics. They discuss publishing and social trends, political correctness, offending others and being offended. They gossip. They dish. And they entertain, for not...