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Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa 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 Macabéa''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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Hour of the Star

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    A Paperback / softback by Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 6 February 2014
      ISBN-13 9780141392035
      978-0141392035
      ISBN-10 0141392037
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      Book Synopsis
      Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa 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 Macabéa''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.

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

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