![]() But why would you make me do that, darlin'?. You will listen to me if I have to force you, her stories growl. Lucia Berlin spins you around, knocks you down and grinds your face into the dirt. Sarah Churchwell, 'Best Books of 2015' * Guardian * Some short story writers - Chekhov, Alice Munro, William Trevor - sidle up and tap you gently on the shoulder: Come, they murmur, sit down, listen to what I have to say. But only Carver's very final stories share Berlin's eye for the sud den exaltation in ordinary lives, or her ability to shift the tone of an entire story with an unexpected sent ence. ![]() Her work is being comp ared to Raymond Carver, for her similar oblique, colloquial style her mordant humour the recurrence of alcoholics and her interest in the lives of working-class or marginalised people. ![]() * New York Times * Lucia Berlin's collection of short stories, A Manual for Cleaning Women, deserves all of the posthumous praise its author has received. ![]() John Self * Independent * In A Manual for Cleaning Women we witness the emergence of an important American writer, one who was mostly overlooked in her time. should by all rights see her as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver. ![]()
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