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- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
11 February 2001
Summary
‘She has examined the heart of man with an understanding … that no other writer can hope to surpass’ - Tennessee Williams
Carson McCullers’ prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the cafe where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141185224 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141185228 |
| Author: | Carson McCullers |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 11 February 2001 |
| Weight: | 256g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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The greatest prose writer that the South produced … She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass
The greatest prose writer that the South produced … She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass – Tennessee WilliamsA remarkable book … [McCullers] writes with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming * The New York Times *Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure – Gore VidalAgain [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men’s hearts and minds * New York Herald-Tribune *
About The Author
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and ‘50s, including The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. McCullers suffered from ill health most of her adult life, including a series of strokes that began when she was in her 20s; she died at the age of 50. The Member of the Wedding was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991).
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