Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:The Hour Of The StarISBN13:9780811219495ISBN10:0811219496Author:Lispector, Clarice (Author), Moser, Benjamin (Translator), T?ib?n, Colm (Introduction by)Description:Narrated By The Cosmopolitan Rodrigo S M , This Brief, Strange, And Haunting Tale Is The Story Of Macab A, One Of Life's Unfortunates Living In The Slums Of Rio And Eking Out A Poor Living As A Typist, Macab A 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, Macab A Is Inwardly Freeshe 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 Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:NEW DIRECTIONSPublication Date:2011-11-09Weight:0.25 lbsDimensions:0.3'' H x 7.8'' L x 5.1'' WNumber of Pages:128Language:English
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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
