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Covert joy : selected stories / Clarice Lispector ; translation and afterword by Katrina Dodson ; introduction by Rachel Kushner ; edited by Benjamin Moser.
Van Pelt Library PQ9697.L585 C69 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lispector, Clarice, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Covert joy (Compilation)
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Lispector, Clarice--Translations into English.
- Lispector, Clarice.
- Short stories, Brazilian.
- Short stories, Brazilian--Translations into English.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 165 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : New Directions Books, 2025.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A gram of radium / Rachel Kushner
- Love
- A chicken
- The imitation of the rose
- Happy birthday
- The smallest woman in the world
- Family ties
- Mystery in São Cristóvão
- The buffalo
- Monkeys
- The egg and the chicken
- Temptation
- The journey to Petrópolis
- The fifth story
- The foreign legion
- Mineirinho
- Covert joy
- Remnants of carnival
- The waters of the world
- He drank me up
- That's where I'm going
- Keeper of the egg / Katrina Dodson.
- ISBN:
- 9780811238878
- 0811238873
- OCLC:
- 1467888831
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