Hour of the Star
by Clarice Lispector
Title:
Hour of the Star
Author:
Clarice Lispector
Series (if any):
Penguin Modern Classics
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
96 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9780141392035
EAN:
9780141392035
Classifications:
Special Features
Weight (g):
200
Dimensions (mm):
198 x 133 x 6
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Price:£8.24
147 copies in stock
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Description
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.
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