Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
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.-
Of Mice and Men
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The Great Gatsby
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A Month in the Country
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East of Eden
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Giovanni's Room
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In Cold Blood
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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Animal Farm
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Alone in Berlin
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Man in the High Castle
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On the Road
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Lolita
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Brideshead Revisited
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The Haunting of Hill House
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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A Clockwork Orange
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Orientalism
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The Crucible
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Ways of Seeing
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Tokyo Express
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Death of a Salesman
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The Wretched of the Earth
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Things Fall Apart
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The Lonely Londoners
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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Dubliners
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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The Night Manager
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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Mrs Dalloway
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Caliban and the Witch
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Homage to Catalonia
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Ulysses
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The Go-between
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Agua Viva
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Near to the Wild Heart
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The Passion According to G.H
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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
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Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady
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Complete Stories
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A Breath of Life
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Too Much of Life
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The Apple in the Dark
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The Imitation of the Rose
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The Besieged City
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The Chandelier
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The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels
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The Woman Who Killed the Fish
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Family Ties
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The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit
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Clarice Lispector - Encontros
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A Hora da Estrela Edicao Especial (Em Portugues do Brasil)
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Lacos de familia
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La La hora de la estrella / The Hour of the Star
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Almost True
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Todas las crónicas / All the Chronicles
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Clarice na cabeceira
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Agua Viva / Living Water
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La La pasión según G. H. / The Passion According to G. H.
Her last and perhaps greatest novel -- Barbara Mujica * Americas *
Her finest book * The Nation *
Her searing last novel.. mesmerizing * Vogue *
Her finest book * The Nation *
Her searing last novel.. mesmerizing * Vogue *
Clarice Lispector (Author)
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Graça Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.
Benjamin Moser (Translator)
Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. His work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence was recognized with Brazil's State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. His most recent book, Sontag: Her Life, won the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Utrecht, in the central Netherlands.
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Graça Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.
Benjamin Moser (Translator)
Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. His work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence was recognized with Brazil's State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. His most recent book, Sontag: Her Life, won the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Utrecht, in the central Netherlands.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780141392035 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141392037 |
| Title | Hour of the Star |
| Author | Clarice Lispector |
| Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2014-02-06 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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