The Hour of the Star (Paperback)
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M.,this brief,strange,and haunting tale is the story of Macabea,one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist,Macabea 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 outward misery,Macabea is inwardly free/She doesn't seem to k