Description
This radiant selection of Clarice Lispector’s best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as “The Smallest Woman in the World,””Love,” “Family Ties,” and “The Egg and the Chicken.” Lispector’s luminous regard for life’s small revelatory incidents is legendary, and here her genius is concentrated in a fizzing, portable volume. Covert Joy offers the particular bliss a book can bring that she expresses in the title story:
Joy would always be covert for me… Sometimes I’d sit in the hammock, swinging with the book open on my lap, not touching it, in the purest ecstasy.I was no longer a girl with a book: I was a woman with her lover
Binding Type: Hardcover
Contributors: Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson (Translator), Rachel Kushner (Introduction by)
Published: 04/01/2025
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811238878
Pages: 165
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 1.00″ H x 8.10″ L x 5.50″ W
About the Author
Lispector, Clarice: – Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and “one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers” (Orhan Pamuk).Kushner, Rachel: – Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers, Telex from Cuba, The Mars Room, and, most recently, Creation Lake.
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