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24%OFFClarice Lispector - Hour of the Star - 9780141392035 - 9780141392035
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Hour of the Star

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Description for Hour of the Star Paperback. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 135 x 7. Weight in Grams: 80. Good clean copy
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabéa's fate but comes to realize that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free. Slyly subverting ideas of poverty, identity, love and the art of writing itself, Clarice Lispector's audacious last novel is a haunting portrayal of innocence in a bad world.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141392035
SKU
9780141392035
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About Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector (Author) Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, ... Read more

Reviews for Hour of the Star
Her last and perhaps greatest novel
Barbara Mujica
Americas
Her finest book
The Nation
Her searing last novel ... mesmerizing
Vogue

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