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Authors: Lucia Berlin
A Manual for Cleaning Women (51 page)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright © 1977, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1999 by Lucia Berlin
Copyright © 2015 by the Estate of Lucia Berlin
Foreword copyright © 2015 by Lydia Davis
Introduction copyright © 2015 by Stephen Emerson
All rights reserved
First edition, 2015
Most of these stories have previously appeared in the collections
Angels Laundromat
(Turtle Island, 1981),
Phantom Pain
(Tombouctou, 1984),
Safe & Sound
(Poltroon, 1988);
Homesick
(Black Sparrow Press, 1991);
So Long
(Black Sparrow Press, 1993), and
Where I Live Now
(Black Sparrow Press, 1999). Stories from
So Long
and
Where I Live Now
are reprinted by permission of David R. Godine. The story “B.F. and Me” appeared, in slightly different form, in
The Paris Review
.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Berlin, Lucia.
[Short stories. Selections]
A manual for cleaning women: selected stories / Lucia Berlin; edited by Stephen Emerson. — First edition.
pages; cm
ISBN 978-0-374-20239-2 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-71286-0 (e-book)
I. Emerson, Stephen, editor. II. Title.
PS3552.E72485 A6 2015
813'.54—dc23
2014047119
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