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The Hour of the Star -- Clarice Lispector, Paperback Fiction - Historical But everyone tells her it'sNarrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S. M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macaba, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macaba loves movies, Coca Colas, 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