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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 869.3 EAN: 9780811211901 ISBN: 0811211908 Label: New Directions Publishing Corporation Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 96 Publication Date: 1992-02 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Studio: New Directions Publishing Corporation Related Items:
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 Rating: - wonderfully strange little book.this is the sort of novel samuel beckett could have written if he were capable of writing an interesting novel. a fictious author guides you through the creation of a character named Macabea, a poor anonymous woman living in poverty in rio, brazil. all along the authors voice is with you, highlighting the artificalness of the storys construction. and what would promise to be a bleak tale of this characters life being built in front of you is actually a tale shot through with a dry sense of humor ... Read More Rating:  - Not enough "bang" for my buckThis short novel started off ok, but it was not long before my brain was awash in confusion. This is a highly abstract experimental novel that makes little if any sense. Without question the author has a wonderful vocabulary and on occasion really knows how to turn a phrase, but she doesn't seem to know how to put her natural talents to their best use. The reader never gets to know the characters (and quite frankly doesn't want to get to know them) because they are so flat--less than flat. ... Read More Rating:  - I want the world!To see a thing of beauty.A woman considered homely and boring that's so happy. Finding joy in a world filled with her average looks and job and boyfriend, she defies sociEty by being a star shining in the appropriate hour of need! Rating: - I Left My Heart in Rio de Janeiro(Small Bang) The Hour of the Star! Since my first and only reading of Lispector's final work, I have bought over three dozen copies, not for myself, but to hand out routinely to people I deem worthy of experiencing her words. I will usually write, with blue ink, on the bottom of page 70, "This has been a practical joke." (I'm having a hellish time writing this review... this review in itself is insignificant, it is the promise of golden rice at the review's end that prompts me to continue) ... Read More Rating: - Not a normal book, and that's what makes it great.Don't dig into this book expecting something normal. Lispector wasn't a normal writer at all. She wasn't a normal woman. This book was written while her cancer in her uterus was eating her alive, and you can almost taste the angst from the narrator. Not that her other books are any different, but in here it feels even more authentic. Perhaps it's due to the fact that the narrator is ficticious as well. Under the name of Rodrigo S.M., Lispector slashes open her soul and reveals nothing, because that's ... Read More 
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