The Hour of the Star
ISBN-13:
9780811219495
ISBN-10:
0811219496
Edition:
Second
Author:
Clarice Lispector
Publication date:
2011
Publisher:
New Directions
Format:
Paperback
128 pages
Category:
Jewish
,
Literature & Fiction
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ISBN-13:
9780811219495
ISBN-10:
0811219496
Edition:
Second
Author:
Clarice Lispector
Publication date:
2011
Publisher:
New Directions
Format:
Paperback
128 pages
Category:
Jewish
,
Literature & Fiction
Summary
The Hour of the Star (ISBN-13: 9780811219495 and ISBN-10: 0811219496), written by authors
Clarice Lispector, was published by New Directions in 2011.
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A new edition of Clarice Lispector’s final masterpiece, now with a vivid introduction by Colm Tóibín.
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free/She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be. Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator―edge of despair to edge of despair―and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader's preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love and the art of fiction. In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leave us deep in Lispector territory indeed.We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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