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清洁女工手册 A Manual for Cleaning Women

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 432 pages

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Imprint:Picador

ISBN:9781447294894

Published:25 Aug 2016

Weight:311g

Dimensions:197 x 130 (mm)

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书籍简介

《纽约时报》畅销书。

“这 43 篇故事选集理应让露西娅·柏林获得与让·里斯或雷蒙德·卡佛同等的赞誉”——《独立报》

由莉迪亚·戴维斯作序，露西娅·柏林在《清洁女工手册》中的故事成为 20 世纪美国小说中最引人注目的无名作品集之一。

露西娅·柏林以非凡的诚实和魅力，邀请我们走进她丰富多彩的流浪生活：饮酒、混乱、痛苦、美丽、惊喜和优雅的时刻。她的声音独特而诙谐、无政府主义和富有同情心。

“露西娅·柏林让我们远离波士顿和纽约的客厅，也远离了文学中关于礼仪的描写，除非我们谈论的是极其恶劣的礼仪……露西娅·柏林让我想起的作家是已故的理查德·耶茨。”—— LRB，1999 年

The New York Times bestseller.

'This selection of 43 stories should by all rights see Lucia Berlin as lauded as Jean Rhys or Raymond Carver' - Independent

Introduced by Lydia Davis, Lucia 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, itinerant life: the drink and the mess and the pain and the beauty and the moments of surprise and of grace. Her voice is uniquely witty, anarchic and compassionate.

'With Lucia Berlin we are very far away from the parlours of Boston and New York and quite far away, too, from the fiction of manners, unless we are speaking of very bad manners . . . The writer Lucia Berlin most puts me in mind of is the late Richard Yates.' - LRB, 1999

作者简介

露西娅·柏林 (1936-2004) 在 20 世纪 60 年代、70 年代和 80 年代创作了一系列作品，作品精彩但断断续续。她的故事灵感来源于她在西部各个矿业城镇的童年生活、在智利圣地亚哥度过的美好青少年时光、三次失败的婚姻、终生的酗酒问题、在伯克利、新墨西哥州和墨西哥城度过的岁月以及后来从事的各种工作，以支持她的写作和她的四个儿子。到 20 世纪 90 年代，她开始保持清醒并稳定写作，1994 年，她担任科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的客座作家，并很快晋升为副教授。2001 年，由于健康状况不佳，她搬到南加州，以便离儿子们更近。2004 年，她在玛丽安德尔湾去世。

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.