The Hour of the Star: 100th Anniversary Edition by Clarice Lispector (English) H

Description: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Paulo Gurgel Valente, Colm Tóibín Clarice Lispectors best-selling masterpiece—"her finest book" (The Nation)—now in a special hardcover edition to celebrate the centenary of her birth, with an illuminating new afterword by her son FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispectors consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of lifes unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola, 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 doesnt seem to know how unhappy she should be. As Macabéa heads toward her absurd death, 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 readers 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 leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed. Author Biography Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called "astounding" (Rachel Kushner), "a penetrating genius" (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and "one of the twentieth centurys most mysterious writers" (Orhan Pamuk). General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispectors complete works at New Directions, BENJAMIN MOSER is the author of Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector, and Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, will be published in October. Paulo Gurgel Valente was born in Washington, DC, in 1953, while his father was stationed in the Brazilian embassy. He has published books on economics and finance. Colm Tóibín is currently the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman professor of the humanities at Columbia University and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester. Review "Every page vibrates with feeling. Its not enough to say that Lispector bends language or uses words in new ways. Plenty of modernists do that. No one else writes prose this rich." -- Lily Meyer - NPR"Sphinx, sorceress, sacred monster. The revival of the hypnotic Clarice Lispector has been one of the true literary events of the twenty-first century." -- Parul Sehgal - The New York Times"This new translation of The Hour of the Star reveals the mesmerizing force of the revitalized modernists Rio-set tale of a young naïf, who, along with the piquantly intrusive narrator, challenges the readers notions of identity, storytelling, and love." -- Meghan OGrady - Vogue"Most late work has a spectral beauty, a sense of form and content dancing a slow and skillful waltz with each other. Lispector, on the other hand, as she came to the end of her life, wrote as though her life was beginning, with a sense of a need to stir and shake narrative itself to see where it might take her, as the bewildered and original writer that she was, and us, her bewildered and excited readers." -- Colm Tóibín"Im really obsessed by this writer from Brazil, Clarice Lispector. I love her because she writes whole novels where not one thing happens—she describes the air. I think shes such a great, great novelist." -- John Waters Review Quote "This new translation of The Hour of the Star reveals the mesmerizing force of the revitalized modernists Rio-set tale of a young naif, who, along with the piquantly intrusive narrator, challenges the readers notions of identity, storytelling, and love." Details ISBN081123004X Author Colm Tóibín Short Title The Hour of the Star Pages 128 Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 081123004X ISBN-13 9780811230049 Format Hardcover Subtitle 100th Anniversary Edition Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 1900-01-01 AU Release Date 2020-11-20 NZ Release Date 2020-11-20 US Release Date 2020-11-20 Translator Benjamin Moser Publication Date 2020-11-20 DEWEY 869.342 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:130067880;

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