Lucia Berlin - Manual para Mulheres de Limpeza

Manual Para Mulheres de Limpeza brings together the best of the work of legendary American writer Lucia Berlin, who has been compared to writers such as Raymond Carver, Richard Yates, Marcel Proust and Chekhov.

With a style all her own, Lucia Berlin echoes her own experience - as rich as it is turbulent - and creates true miracles out of everyday life. Her stories are pieces of convulsed lives. Stories of women like her, who laugh, cry, love, drink, live and survive. Stories of mothers and daughters, failed marriages and early pregnancies. Stories of emigration, wealth and poverty, loneliness, love and violence. Whether in hairdressing salons, laundrettes, dentists' surgeries or nuns' colleges, the unexpected happens in these pages. You witness life's little miracles and tragedies, which Lucia Berlin treats sometimes with humor, sometimes with melancholy, but always with moving empathy and extraordinary vivacity, as if the characters and places - extraordinarily real - leapt off the page.