Complete Stories

One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperbackwith three just-discovered storiesHere, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering 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 dont know what to do with themselves and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their livesand hersand ours.