Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector

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Trade paperback format. Translation from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson, edited and with an introduction by Benjamin Moser. Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that mad e Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves-- and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives--and hers--and ours. Show more