A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
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.
清潔婦女手冊》(A Manual for Cleaning Women) 彙編了傳奇短篇小說作家露西婭•柏林 (Lucia Berlin) 的最佳作品。
因為雷蒙德•卡弗 (Raymond Carver) 的勇氣,格蕾絲•佩利 (Grace Paley) 的幽默,以及她自己的智慧和憂鬱的混合,於是,柏林工藝的日常奇跡,恩典的發現時刻出現在洗衣店和美國西南部中途之家,在灣區的上流社會家中,在總機接線員和掙扎的母親身上,在搭便車者和心術不良基督徒身上。
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