Near to the Wild Heart

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Publisher's Synopsis

Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice": a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: "He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life."

The book was an unprecedented sensation - the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims: "I shall arise as strong and comely as a young colt."

Book information

ISBN: 9780811220026
Publisher: New Directions
Imprint: New Directions Books
Pub date:
Edition: Reprint
DEWEY: 869.342
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 220
Weight: 220g
Height: 203mm
Width: 132mm
Spine width: 15mm