The Complete Stories

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>MP3 CD Format<br/>Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. These stories cover her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves -- and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives -- and hers -- and ours.<br/><br/><br/>Review<br/><br/><br/>''<br/>Complete Stories is a remarkable book, proof that she is one of the true originals of Latin American literature.'' --<br/>New York Times Book Review<br/><br/>''<br/>The Complete Stories is bound to become a kind of bedside Bible...for readers of Lispector, both old and new.'' --<br/>Publishers Weekly (starred review<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called ''astounding'' (Rachel Kushner), ''a penetrating genius'' (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and ''a truly remarkable writer'' (Jonathan Franzen). ''Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure,'' noted the Times Literary Supplement, ''and when she is writing of what she despises, she is lucidity itself.''