# Covert Joy

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- Authors: [Clarice Lispector](https://www.bookquiver.com/clarice-lispector)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2025-04-01

## Description

This radiant selection of Clarice Lispector's best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as " The Smallest Woman in the World,"" Love," " Family Ties," and " The Egg and the Chicken." Lispector's luminous regard for life's small revelatory incidents is legendary, and here her genius is concentrated in a fizzing, portable volume. Covert Joy offers the particular bliss a book can bring that she expresses in the title story: Joy would always be covert for me… Sometimes I’d sit in the hammock, swinging with the book open on my lap, not touching it, in the purest ecstasy. I was no longer a girl with a book: I was a woman with her lover

## Editions

### Covert Joy

- Publisher: New Directions Publishing
- ISBN: 978-08-1123-887-8
- Published: 2025-04-01
- Language: en_US