The Chandelier

by Clarice Lispector

Book Overview

The Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of "Hurricane Clarice."
Virginia and her cruel, beautiful brother, Daniel, grow up in a decaying country mansion. They leave for the city, but the change of locale leaves Virginia's internal life unperturbed. In intensely poetic language, Lispector conducts a stratigraphic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811228711
• ISBN13: 9780811228718
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 7.9"