Overview
This radiant selection of Clarice Lispectorās best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as āThe Smallest Woman in the World,āāLove,ā āFamily Ties,ā and āThe Egg and the Chicken.ā Lispectorās luminous regard for lifeās 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 meā¦ Sometimes Iād 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
This book title, Covert Joy (Selected Stories), ISBN: 9780811238878, by Clarice Lispector, published by New Directions (October 1, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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