Product Description: "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...read more

Product Description: Readers will revel in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how they'd ever overlooked her in the first place. ''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...read more

Set mainly in Los Angeles, Lucia Berlin's gritty working-class stories bridge the gap between the Americas - rich and poor, North and South, Anglo and Hispanic. While her style has been compared to Raymond Carver's, and her dream- and drink-addicted characters to Richard Yates', her fictional territory and fatalistic humor are hers alone. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Set mainly in Los Angeles, Lucia Berlin's gritty working-class stories bridge the gap between the Americas - rich and poor, North and South, Anglo and Hispanic. While her style has been compared to Raymond Carver's, and her dream- and drink-addicted characters to Richard Yates', her fictional territory and fatalistic humor are hers alone...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Berlin, Lucia (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Berlin, Lucia (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This collection of short stories includes such titles as 'Angels Laundromat,' 'Her first detox,' 'Noel, 1974,' and 'Manual for cleaning women'

Product Description: A dozen short stories by a modern American author who is often compared to Eudora Welty, Raymond Carver and Fielding Dawson.

Product Description: Fiction. Lucia Berlin was born in Alaska, raised in Chili, and presently lives and works in California. Her stories have appeared in The Noble Savage, The Critic, The Atlantic, The London Strand, and Quilt, and many other magazines and journals...read more