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"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers. Now, after years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews, Benjamin Moser demonstrates how Lispector's development as a writer was directly connected to the story of her turbulent life. Born in the nightmarish landscape of post-World War I Ukraine, Clarice bec...

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Biography Awards Literary Biography Women's Biography Literary Figures - Women's Biography General & Miscellaneous Women's Literary Biography Latin American & Caribbean Literary Biography New York Times Notable Nonfiction of 2009 Los Angeles Times Favorite Nonfiction of 2009 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Best Books of the Year Best Books of the Year 2009 New York Times Best Books of 2009 Los Angeles Times Favorite Books of 2009 National Book Critics Circle Awards Previous Finalists - National Book Critics Circle Awards

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

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