{"product_id":"covert-joy-clarice-lispector-9780811240888","title":"Covert Joy","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eCovert Joy\u003c\/em\u003e is an electric volume starring such landmark Clarice Lispector stories as \"The Smallest Woman in the World,\" \"Love,\" \"Family Ties,\" and \"The Egg and the Chicken.\" As expressed in the title story, \u003cem\u003eCovert Joy\u003c\/em\u003e offers all the bliss that only a great book can bring: \u003cem\u003eJoy would always be covert for me. . . Sometimes I'd sit in the hammock, swinging with the book open on my lap, not touching it, in the purest ecstasy. I was no longer a girl with a book: I was a woman with her lover.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eThese stories embody all the many wonders of Clarice Lispector's short fiction and were selected from \u003cem\u003eComplete Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, named a Best Book of the Year by \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, NPR, BBC, \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLitHub\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e. \"Clarice Lispector's stories are strangely restorative,\" as Rachel Kushner remarks in her foreword. \"While reading itself is not passive, you can relax, while she is hard at work, asking questions that are inside you, too, so that you yourself don't have to frame them. Her aspiration is nothing less than to uncover the bizarre mystery of consciousness, to contemplate being while being, to apprehend life while living it. Someone has to do this work. Lispector seems to have recognized that she had a gift for the job and plunged in.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clarice Lispector\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811240886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811240888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Clarice Lispector","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447251644671,"sku":"9780811240888","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b045d89-dfaa-4b61-9ed0-2e62ae5ac016.jpg?v=1777229861","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/covert-joy-clarice-lispector-9780811240888","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}