Why this world : a biography of Clarice Lispector
Moser, Benjamin2014
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Born in 1920, in the landscape of post-World War 1 Ukraine, her family driven to a distant country by the fearsome pogroms that killed her mother and ruined her father, Clarice Lispector triumphed over her origins to become a person whose beauty, genius, and eccentricity intrigues all of Brazil's writers & artists.
Main title:
Why this world : a biography of Clarice Lispector / Benjamin Moser.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2014.London : Penguin, 2014.
Collation:
480 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Haus, 2009.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781846147814 (pbk)
Dewey class:
920 LIS
Language:
English
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BRN:
672284