{"product_id":"9780241597583-too-much-of-life-complete-chronicles","title":"Too Much of Life","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eComplete Chronicles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTLS \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween 1967 and 1977, the internationally renowned author Clarice Lispector wrote weekly dispatches from her desk in Rio for the \u003ci\u003eJornal do Brasil\u003c\/i\u003e. Already famous for her revolutionary, interior, metaphysical novels and short stories, in her \u003ci\u003eChronicles\u003c\/i\u003e she turned her attention to the everyday, reshaping the material of her life into profound, touching and funny, tiny revelations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObserving the world around her, small encounters like hearing tales of the lost loves of a taxi driver, or the bitterness lurking beneath the prettiness of an old friend, become an exposition of the currents and foibles that define our lives. Everything from the meaning of cosmonauts to the new ideas, writers and artists that populate the sparkling international world of the sixties and seventies are considered and transformed into jewels of insight, delight and devastation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSincere and playful, exhilarating and contemplative, \u003ci\u003eToo Much of Life: Complete Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e opens up a new way of seeing the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40973763608673,"sku":"9780241597583","price":14.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32275993.jpg?v=1737113068","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241597583-too-much-of-life-complete-chronicles","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}