Lucia Berlin has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 36 ratings. The most-rated is A Manual for Cleaning Women.
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Summary
"I have always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream, sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should be - their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin will begin to gain the attention she deserves." - Lydia Davis, from the foreword A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. 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. Listeners will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place.
©2015 Lucia Berlin (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Welcome Home
Summary
Before Lucia Berlin died, she was working on a book of previously unpublished autobiographical sketches called Welcome Home. The work consisted of more than 20 chapters that started in 1936 in Alaska and ended (prematurely) in 1966 in Southern Mexico. In our publication of Welcome Home, her son, Jeff Berlin, is filling in the gaps with photos and letters from her eventful, romantic, and tragic life. From Alaska to Argentina, Kentucky to Mexico, New York City to Chile, Berlin's world was wide. And the writing here is, as we've come to expect, dazzling. She describes the places she lived and the people she knew with all the style and wit and heart and humor that people fell in love with in her stories. Combined with letters from friends and lovers, Welcome Home is an essential nonfiction companion to A Manual for Cleaning Women and Evening in Paradise.
©2018 Lucia Berlin (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Manual para mujeres de la limpieza [Manual for Cleaning Women]
Summary
Tras años de injusto olvido, Alfaguara se suma al fenómeno editorial del descubrimiento de Lucia Berlin, el secreto mejor guardado de la literatura estadounidense, una auténtica revolución literaria. XVII Premi Llibreter 2016. Libro del Año según Babelia. «Recién aparecido en Estados Unidos ya ha arrasado en los suplementos literarios y tiene todos los puntos para convertirse en un libro de culto.» Sergio Vila-Sanjuán, La Vanguardia «Lucia Berlin pasó su vida en la oscuridad. Ahora se la reverencia como a un genio literario.» Brigit Katz, The New York Times Con su inigualable toque de humor y melancolía, Berlin se hace eco de su vida, asombrosa y convulsa, para crear verdaderos milagros literarios con episodios del día a día. Las mujeres de sus relatos están desorientadas, pero al mismo tiempo son fuertes, inteligentes y, sobre todo extraordinariamente reales. Ríen, lloran, aman, beben: sobreviven. * Uno de los mejores libros del año según The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR y The Boston Globe. * En la lista de los más vendidos en Estados Unidos desde su publicación. * Traducida a más de 14 idiomas. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2015 Herederos de Lucia Berlin (P)2019 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial S.A.U.
Evening in Paradise
Summary
A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin. In 2015, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times best seller; the paper's Book Review named it one of the 10 best books of 2015; and NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and other outlets gave the book rave reviews. Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from the remaining Berlin stories - a jewel box follow-up for Lucia Berlin's hungry fans. A millions.com pick of most anticipated books.
©2018 Lucia Berlin (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.