Near to the Wild Heart opens with a scene of the child Joana playing in the garden, making up poems for her father. Joana's wildness and barely suppressed violence, along with her linguistic creativity, are her most notable features. She is frequently compared to animals: over the course of the book Lispector compares her to a bird, a snake, a wildcat, a horse, and a dog. She commits transgressive acts—as a child she throws a book at an old man's head, for example, and as a married woman she leaves her husband, Otávio, and greets the news of his adultery—he has made another woman, his
A Woman in Charge Gerth-Van Natta rival. Several reviewers noted that "A Woman in Charge" had next to nothing about Clinton's Senate career. The "Rocky Mountain News" wrote that "Carl Bernstein's much-hyped unauthorized biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton, "A Woman in Charge", is neither a bomb nor a bombshell ... he disappoints [in] devoting about 20 pages to her years in the U.S. Senate and a scant three pages to her decision to run for president. It's as if he lost steam in his eight-year labor and then rushed to print as she became a presidential front-runner." "The New Yorker" writer Elizabeth Kolbert saw