{"product_id":"the-hour-of-the-star-9780811219495","title":"The Hour of the Star","description":"Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa 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, Macabéa is inwardly free\/She 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clarice Lispector\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811219495\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2012 pg. 97\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014 pg. 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLispector, Clarice:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eClarice Lispector\u003c\/strong\u003e (1920-1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called \"astounding\" (Rachel Kushner), \"a penetrating genius\" (Donna Seaman, \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e), and \"one of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers\" (Orhan Pamuk).\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoser, Benjamin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector's complete works at New Directions, \u003cstrong\u003eBENJAMIN MOSER\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eWhy This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSontag: Her Life and Work\u003c\/em\u003e, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, \u003cem\u003eThe Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters\u003c\/em\u003e, will be published in October.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTóibín, Colm:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eColm Tóibín\u003c\/strong\u003e is currently the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman professor of the humanities at Columbia University and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Clarice Lispector \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47280821633181,"sku":"9780811219495","price":27.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_d54f0e12-81bd-4687-8809-85e046c26efe.jpg?v=1759921810","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-hour-of-the-star-9780811219495","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}