About the Book: Hour of the Star
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea 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 Macabeas 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 Lispectors
audacious last novel is a haunting portrayal of innocence in a bad world.
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