An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures -- Clarice Lispector, Paperback Unabridged Audio - Fiction/Science Fiction & Fantasy Bui pushes through

Bui pushes through

Acclaimed artist Dan Santat has illustrated over 50 books for children

Over two decades ago

Publisher: Health Communications

a well-mannered and kind-natured companion

An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures -- Clarice Lispector, Paperback Unabridged Audio - Fiction/Science Fiction & Fantasy Bui pushes throughLri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only "to love and to be loved," but also "to be worthy of life itself." Published in 1968, An