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English
Penguin
03 March 2014
Clarice Lispector's audacious and haunting last novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics

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. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabea'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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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 7mm
Weight:   78g
ISBN:   9780141392035
ISBN 10:   0141392037
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Hour of the Star

Her searing last novel ... mesmerizing * Vogue * Her finest book * The Nation * Her last and perhaps greatest novel -- Barbara Mujica * Americas *


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