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El Tim

Point of View

Her First Detox

Phantom Pain

Tiger Bites

Emergency Room Notebook, 1977

Temps Perdu

Carpe Diem

Toda Luna, Todo Año

Good and Bad

Melina

Friends

Unmanageable

Electric Car, El Paso

Sex Appeal

Teenage Punk

Step

Strays

Grief

Bluebonnets

La Vie en Rose

Macadam

Dear Conchi

Fool to Cry

Mourning

Panteón de Dolores

So Long

A Love Affair

Let Me See You Smile

Mama

Carmen

Silence

Mijito

502

Here It Is Saturday

B.F. and Me

Wait a Minute

Homing

Acknowledgments

A Note on Lucia Berlin

Also by Lucia Berlin

Copyright

 

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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