num_pages: 89
description: Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist Macaba 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 Macaba'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.
language: English
title: Hour of the Star
publisher: Penguin