{"product_id":"9780811220712","title":"Near to the Wild Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNear 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079786643696,"sku":"9780811220712","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811220712_p0.jpg?v=1763741890","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811220712","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}