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Hour of the Star

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa 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 Macabéa'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…

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British Library digitised image from page 186 of "The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for young readers"

Image taken from: Title: "The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for young readers" Author(s): British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 10027.ee" Page: 186 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: London (England) Date of publication: 1896 Publisher: James Nisbet Type of resource: Monograph Language(s): English Explore this item in the British Library’s catalogue: 001567835 (physical copy) and 014812510 (digitised…

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British Library digitised image from page 187 of "The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for young readers"

Image taken from: Title: "The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for young readers" Author(s): British Library shelfmark: "Digital Store 10027.ee" Page: 187 (scanned page number - not necessarily the actual page number in the publication) Place of publication: London (England) Date of publication: 1896 Publisher: James Nisbet Type of resource: Monograph Language(s): English Explore this item in the British Library’s catalogue: 001567835 (physical copy) and 014812510 (digitised…

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