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Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world''s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith

Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century.

The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector. A woman contemplating a vase of roses after a nervous breakdown; a tangled mother-daughter relationship; a man''s abandonment of a dog; an animal in a zoo: each one leads to mystery and self-discovery, delight and devastation.

The Imitation of the Rose Clarice Lispector

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    A Hardback by Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 25 May 2023
      ISBN-13 9780241630846
      978-0241630846
      ISBN-10 0241630843
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      Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world''s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith

      Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century.

      The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector. A woman contemplating a vase of roses after a nervous breakdown; a tangled mother-daughter relationship; a man''s abandonment of a dog; an animal in a zoo: each one leads to mystery and self-discovery, delight and devastation.

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