Displaying 1 of 1 2020 Format: Book Author: Lispector, Clarice, author. Title: The hour of the star / Clarice Lispector ; introduction by Colm Tóibín ; reminiscence by Paulo Gurgel Valente ; translated from the Portugese by Benjamin Moser. Edition: Centennial edition. Publisher, Date: New York : New Directions Books, 2020. ©2011 Description: xiv, 93 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Summary: "The devastating final work by Brazil's greatest modern writer, The Hour of the Star tells the haunting tale of Macabéa-a typist who lives in the slums of Rio-underfed, sickly, and unloved, yet inwardly free"-- Provided by publisher. Subjects: Poor women -- Brazil -- Fiction. Typists -- Fiction. Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Fiction. Genre: Psychological fiction. Other Author: Moser, Benjamin, translator. Tóibín, Colm, 1955- writer of introduction. Valente, Paulo Gurgel, writer of afterword. Other Title: Hora da estrela. English Notes: "A New Directions book." "Originally published as A hora da estrela"--Title page verso. In English, translated from the Portugese. LCCN: 2020028448 ISBN: 9780811230049 Other Number: 1162259262 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 1 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 880830 # Local items in: 0 # System items in: 0 Call Number: FICTION Lispecto Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
