{"product_id":"covert-joy-selected-stories-9780811238878","title":"Covert Joy: Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis radiant selection of Clarice Lispector's best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites 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. \u003cem\u003eCovert Joy\u003c\/em\u003e offers the particular bliss a book can bring that she expresses in the title story: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clarice Lispector\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.7lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811238878","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43812221485193,"sku":"9780811238878","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_07182e24-1320-44c3-b3ff-2cb8ff48d853.jpg?v=1742880926","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/covert-joy-selected-stories-9780811238878","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}