{"product_id":"an-apprenticeship-or-the-book-of-pleasures-9780811230612","title":"An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures","description":"\u003cp\u003eA love story by the great Clarice Lispector that asks: Just how might two people be joined? Lri  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 Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispectors attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical masterpiece The Passion According to G. H. Here  in this unconventional love story  she explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them  and the result  unusual in her work  surprised many readers and became a bestseller. Some appreciated its accessibility; others denounced it as sexist or superficial. To both admirers and critics  the olympian Clarice gave a typically elliptical answer: I humanized myself  she said. The book reflects that.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650412798005,"sku":"ByrdShop_0811230619","price":494.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780811230612.jpg?v=1781795876","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/an-apprenticeship-or-the-book-of-pleasures-9780811230612","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}