{"product_id":"the-hour-of-the-star-100th-anniversary-edition-hardcover","title":"The Hour of the Star: 100th Anniversary Edition - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClarice Lispector\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Moser\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003ePaulo Gurgel Valente\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hour of the Star\u003c\/em\u003e, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. 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-Cola, 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. As Macabéa heads toward her absurd death, 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 leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382783099058,"sku":"9780811230049","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/2efe4b5f596ea3fba622317cb46cdaf0.webp?v=1777844235","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-hour-of-the-star-100th-anniversary-edition-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}