Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) worked brilliantly but sporadically throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her stories are inspired by her early childhood in various Western mining towns; her glamorous teenage years in Santiago, Chile; three failed marriages; a lifelong problem with alcoholism; her years spent in Berkeley, New Mexico, and Mexico City; and the various jobs she later held to support her writing and her four sons. Sober and writing steadily by the 1990s, she took a visiting writer's post at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1994 and was soon promoted to associate professor. In 2001, in failing health, she moved to Southern California to be near her sons. She died in 2004 in Marina del Rey. She is the author of the short story collection A Manual for Cleaning Women.
A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians. Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place.
评分
评分
评分
评分
读到经常心痛 病痛、家庭回忆、嗜酒、爱。how trivial yet loudly her voice rings is fascinating. 以及那些谜一样的停顿和断奏。
评分短篇小说集。最后几页是作家生平,于是看懂了这些也许荒唐但让人心碎的故事都曾是她生活的碎片。她有时给故事镶金边,有时不动声色默默凝视,有时略带嘲讽像是在讲不相干的故事。只是,她能真切捕捉到边缘人物的优雅,她也有办法让你感受到这份优雅。
评分读过,忘了。。。
评分test
评分读到经常心痛 病痛、家庭回忆、嗜酒、爱。how trivial yet loudly her voice rings is fascinating. 以及那些谜一样的停顿和断奏。
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 qciss.net All Rights Reserved. 小哈图书下载中心 版权所有