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Hour of the Star, EPUB eBook

Hour of the Star EPUB

Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series

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Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macab a 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 Macab a'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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