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The Hour of the Star

by Clarice Lispector

New Directions. 2011. 128p. tr. from Portuguese by Benjamin Moser. ISBN 9780811219495. pap. $12.95. BRAZIL

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The great author's last and arguably finest novel portrays an unskilled country girl trying to make a living in the big city, only to have her life ironically snuffed out.

Reviewed by Lawrence Olszewksi , Oct 01, 2014

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