A Manual for Cleaning Women : Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin

A Manual for Cleaning Women : Selected Stories by Lucia BerlinThe world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot. With an introduction from Lydia DavisLucia Berlin's 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,

Often not seen or heard

finding new shapes

So when a real live mouse decides to move into the Dead Zoo

before she's gone for good

and the most unusual babysitter you've ever seen

This is the story of that fraught midnight deal

but when opportunity knocks

But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians

Dickens's great Bildungsroman (based

In later centuries

gives a twist to familiar myth by offering the perspective of women characters' - The Sunday TimesAs Princesses of Crete and daughters of the fearsome King Minos

From the author of the hugely successful book Legendary Ireland