CLEANING AND WOMEN READING CLUB

An anthology of 43 stories based on the itinerant life of Lucia Berlin (Juneau, Alaska, 1936-Marina del Rey, California, 2004) they will desgranarse at the next meeting of the Reading Club Santa Eulària des Riu. As usual, the first Tuesday of each month, a las 20:30 hours in the library.

Lucia Berlin was an attractive woman, married three times, alcoholic, who worked hard at all kinds of trades to support their four children. It tells us of disastrous lives in which disaster is accepted as normal; has no qualms about showing human misery; Degradation, vulgarity, the ugliness, accepted dirt nor the tenderness or emotion of misfits. His characters are people abused by life and by themselves., but also bold, that go in front, with an admirable intrepidity and unconsciousness.

After years of unjust oblivion, has become a literary phenomenon. Berlin belongs to that class of "lost and found" American writers, women with difficult or problematic lives: Shirley Jackson, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Smart, Dorothy Parker herself... The case of Berlin is peculiar because she began to publish (not to write) very late and only at the end of the last century did she begin to be read and recognized as an exceptional storyteller. Handbook for cleaning women It has become one of the best books of the year according to The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR y The Boston Globe, translated to 14 Languages.

 

Reading Club

Handbook for cleaning women

Lucia Berlin

Tuesday, 2 de julio de 2019

20:30 horas

Municipal library

Santa Eulalia.

 

 

 

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