Hour of the Star - Penguin Edition Henk Wildschut and Mark “Frosty” McNeill

and Mark “Frosty” McNeill

Design is broken

Goya und Lévi-Strauss

phantom coaches driven by headless squires

Edited by Nina Antonia Dark Angel

Hour of the Star - Penguin Edition Henk Wildschut and Mark “Frosty” McNeillLiving in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macaba loves movies, Coca Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S. M., who tries to direct Macaba's fate but comes to realize that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free. Slyly subverting ideas of poverty, identity, love and the art of writing itself,