Hour of the Star PMC

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

Clarice Lispector's audacious and haunting last novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics

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 Macabea'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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780141392035
Published: February 2014

Number of pages: 96
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 5 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd