Hour of the Star, Paperback by Lispector, Clarice; Moser, Benjamin (TRN); Toi...

Description: Hour of the Star, Paperback by Lispector, Clarice; Moser, Benjamin (TRN); Toibin, Colm (INT), ISBN 0811219496, ISBN-13 9780811219495, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo ., 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.

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Restocking Fee: No

Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer

All returns accepted: Returns Accepted

Item must be returned within: 14 Days

Refund will be given as: Money Back

Edition: 2

Book Title: Hour of the Star

Number of Pages: 128 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Topic: Psychological, Contemporary Women, Jewish

Item Height: 0.4 in

Publication Year: 2011

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 4.2 Oz

Item Length: 8 in

Author: Clarice Lispector

Item Width: 5.2 in

Format: Trade Paperback