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 Rodri

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 6 February 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141392037
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141392035
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 78 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.8 x 0.7 x 19.8 cm
Best Sellers Rank: #1,556 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #23 in Psychological Fiction #44 in Poetry #229 in Literary Fiction
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