Covert joy : selected stories
Lispector, Clarice2025
Book
"This radiant selection of Clarice Lispector's best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favourites 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 bliss a book can bring that she expresses in the title story"-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
Covert joy : selected stories / Clarice Lispector ; translation and afterword by Katrina Dodson ; introduction by Rachel Kushner ; edited by Benjamin Moser.
Author:
Lispector, Clarice, authorDodson, Katrina, translator, writer of afterwordKushner, Rachel, writer of introductionMoser, Benjamin, editor
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : New Directions Publishing, 2025.©2025
Collation:
ix, 165 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
"A New Directions book."Translated from the Portuguese.
Contents:
A gram of radium / by Rachel KushnerLoveA chickenThe imitation of the roseHappy birthdayThe smallest woman in the worldFamily tiesMystery in São CristóvãoThe buffaloMonkeysThe egg and the chickenTemptationThe journey to PetrópolisThe fifth storyThe foreign legionMineirinhoCovert joyRemnants of carnivalThe waters of the worldHe drank me upThat's where I'm goingKeeper of the egg / by Katrina Dodson.
ISBN:
9780811238878 (hbk)9780811238878 (hardback)
Dewey class:
869.342
LC class:
PQ9697.L585
Language:
EnglishPortuguese
BRN:
833345
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | Fiction | LISP | On loan - Due: 14 Jul 2026 |
| East Melbourne Library | Fiction | LISP | Available |
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | Fiction | LISP | On loan - Due: 01 Jul 2026 |
| Library at the Dock | Fiction | LISP | On loan - Due: 28 Jun 2026 |
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Fiction | LISP | Available |
| North Melbourne Library | Fiction | LISP | Available |
| Southbank Library | Fiction | LISP | On reserve shelf at City Library |