Near to the Wild Heart - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780811220026

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by Clarice Lispector (Author), Alison Entrekin (Translator), Benjamin Moser (Preface by)

Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice" a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: "He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life."

The book was an unprecedented sensation -- the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims: "I shall arise as strong and comely as a young colt."

Number of Pages: 220

Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN

Publication Date: June 13, 2012

Award: Literary Award (2013)

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