The chandelier

Clarice Lispector

earliest edition we have, 2018 Penguin Books, Limited, 2019 304 pages

"Fresh from the enormous success of her debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, Hurricane Clarice let loose something stormier in 1946 with her second novel, The Chandelier. In a body of work renowned for its potent idiosyncratic genius, The Chandelier in many ways has pride of place. "It stands out," her biographer Benjamin Moser noted, "in a strange and difficult body of work, as perhaps her strangest and most difficul...

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Benjamin Moser 1 printing we hold · 2018

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Chandelier edition · 2019 · New Directions Publishing Corporation · 320 pages · 9780811228718
Chandelier edition · 2019 · Penguin Books, Limited · 304 pages · 9780241371343
The chandelier edition · 2018 · 313 pages · 9780811223133

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