Carson McCullers

"When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl,...

A grotesque human triangle in a primitive Southern town ... A young boy learning the difficult lessons of manhood ... A fateful encounter with his native land and former love ... These are parts of the world of Carson McCullers - a world of the lost, the injured, the eternal strangers at life's feast. Here from one of America's superlative writers are brilliant revelations of love and longing, bitter heartbreak and occasional happiness - tales that...

"On the eve of court-ordered integration in small-town Georgia, four characters interact: J.T. Malone, a lonely, dying middle-aged druggist looking to redeem his misspent life; Fox Clane, a corrupt old judge and defender of the ways of the Old South; Jester Clane, the judge's orphaned grandson, a directionless adolescent with a strong sense of social justice; and Sherman Pew, an angry, blue-eyed black youth in search of his own identity."--Mariner...

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 growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her bestselling...

A single volume collection of the celebrated writer's novels includes the complete texts of five novels: The heart is a lonely hunter. -- Reflections in a golden eye. -- The ballad of the sad cafe. -- The member of the wedding. -- Clock without hands.

"The previously uncollected writings of Carson McCullers."

When deaf-mute John Singer moves to a sleepy Southern town to be near his hospitalized friend, a brain-damaged man-child, Singer's silent kindness draws to him others broken in body and spirit.

Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of the novel by Carson McCullers about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in Georgia.