| Author/Contributor(s): | Lispector, Clarice ; Entrekin, Alison ; Moser, Benjamin |
| Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Date: | 06/13/2012 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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."