Complete Stories [Paperback]

Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilianlegend. 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 herdeathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexualand artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who dont know what to do with themselvesand in their stories, Clarice takes us through their livesand hersand ours.?I felt physically jolted by genius.Reading Lispector is like being handed a world on fire.?Translated beautifully and with a vigorous pulse by Katrina Dodson,A dangerous book to read quickly or casually because its so consistently delirious. HerUtterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing.One of the most phenomenally acclaimed andsuccessful books of recent years is now availableas a paperbackwith three just-discovered stories?