Amazingly, Carson McCullers wrote THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER when she was only 23 years old--her first book. It was an immediate success and is widely considered to be her greatest novel. McCullers tells the story of young Mick Kelly, a 12-year-old girl growing up during the Great Depression. Mick is a gifted pianist--as was McCullers--who longs ...
Frankie is a motherless 12-year-old growing up, with difficulty, in a town in Georgia in the 1930s. She is lonely, awkward, bored, and--like so many of Carson McCullers's characters--alienated from most of the people around her. When her brother returns from the service and announces he's getting married, Frankie hits on the desperate scheme of ...
Set in small Georgia towns that are at once precisely observed and mythically resonant, McCullers's novels explore the strange, sometimes grotesque inner lives of characters who are often marginal and misunderstood. In this collection, readers will find "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and ...
Set in the 1930's South, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE was inspired by an episode Carson McCullers heard about, involving a voyeur on a local Army base. She used this as the germ for the story of two officers, their wives, and a young enlisted man--five characters whose lives intersect in a dance of betrayal, compliance, and repressed homosexuality. ...
McCullers defined "illumination" as inspiration and insight; "night glare" referred to her many illnesses and periods of writer's block. She left this manuscript at her death in 1967: an incomplete pastiche of events and opinions from McCullers's life, including the suicide of her husband, her evaluations of other writers, and her own creative ...
Carson McCullers's THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE explores what it means to love and to be loved from the perspective of a bizarre romantic triangle. Cross-eyed, masculine Miss Amelia Evans, owner of the general store in a small town, marries Marvin Macy, who adores her. But what she wants is a helper, not a lover; when Marvin expects sex from her, ...
It took Carson McCullers 20 years to write her last novel, CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS. Set like most of her fiction in a small Southern town, the novel revolves around Judge Fox Clane, an elderly reactionary obsessed with the grandeur of the Old South, and the local pharmacist, J.T. Malone, who is terminally ill and desperately trying to understand who ...
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers' best stories, including her beloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose cafe serves as ...
An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America's finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers's work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and ...
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including her beloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose cafe serves as ...
"A marvelous study of the agony of adolescence" ("Detroit Free Press"), "The Member of the Wedding"--which became an award-winning play and a major motion picture--showcases McCullers at her most sensitive, astute, and best.
Carson McCullers's THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE explores what it means to love and to be loved from the perspective of a bizarre romantic triangle. Cross-eyed, masculine Miss Amelia Evans, owner of the general store in a small town, marries Marvin Macy, who adores her. But what she wants is a helper, not a lover; when Marvin expects sex from her, ...
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