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Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
Other People's Dirt A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
Author: Louise Rafkin
What do housecleaners know? Everything. Everything about what makes life a messy affair. And in her quirky, irreverent book Louise Rafkin shows that a housecleaner finds a lot more than dust bunnies under the bed. Armed with a battery of housekeys, Rafkin takes us on an intimate tour of people's lives, introducing us to unsuspecting clients and ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781565121621
ISBN-10: 1565121627
Publication Date: 1/5/1998
Pages: 195
Rating:
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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3.4 stars, based on 46 ratings
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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nascargal avatar reviewed Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures on + 352 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
This is a hilarious and also somewhat sad view of what housecleaners go through.
Chesara avatar reviewed Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures on + 153 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Interesting memoir of a housecleaner,the houses she has cleaned and the people who own them.
reviewed Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures on + 4 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Very funny and insightful. Rafkin is a refreshing voice and her stories of tackling other people's dirt range from infuriating to hilarious.
ilovebooksanddogs avatar reviewed Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures on + 359 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
this book was hilarious! a really good fun read!
reviewed Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures on + 8 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Interesting and funny but writer seems to have a chip on her shoulder - among other things, who ever heard of a cleaning person who won't make beds? Anyway, she was an aspiring writer looking to do something she could write about and got into cleaning to make ends meet - thus this book. She is a good writer -- I did keep reading even as I kept thinking how critical, self-centered and lacking in empathy thw writer is.
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Mom2EmNAbby avatar reviewed Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures on + 49 more book reviews
This was a fun read....I did think the author rambled a bit & some of her thoughts seemed to be pretty randon & unconnected to the previous paragraph but overall I still enjoyed this book.
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Mildly interesting book on the insights of a professional house cleaner. Very quick read.
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Funny look at the many ways to clean for money and as psychological compulsion.


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