The publication of Clarice Lispector&s Collected Stories eighty-five in all is a major literary event Now for the first time in English are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual & artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don&t know what to do with themselves Lispector&s stories take us through their lives
- & ours From one of the greatest modern writers these 85 stories gathered from the nine collections published during her lifetime follow Clarice Lispector throughout her life