books by Carson McCullers

books by Carson McCullers

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Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers

Mariner Books, 1998

Conflicts and brutality as the Old South slowly dies
Written in 1953, this book explores the racial tensions in a small southern town. The winds of integration are in the air and the Old South is dying. The story is told through several characters. There's a pharmacist dying of leukemia who struggles with the ...

The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers

Bantam Books, 1964

Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Carson McCullers

Mariner Books, 1998

Interesting...
I have always read stories in the past that gave me feelings right away. After reading these short stories, I was somewhat confused why McCullers didn't elaborate, or why she ended the story where she did. It was only after reading her biography, that I began to reread ...

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)

Carson McCullers

Mariner, 2004

A Favorite Over 45+ Years
I first read this book as a teenager and have read it again several times over the years. There is something so deeply revealing about the human condition in the book that it is as meaningful to me in my sixties and it was in my teens - I think that something is ...

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: and Other Stories

Carson McCullers

Mariner Books, 2005

Carson's Ballad is Beautiful
I was first turned onto Carson McCullers in a southern lit class in college. Sad Cafe was required reading, and one of the best stories I read that whole semester. I found myself reading it again and again because I just liked the way the story sounded in my head. ...

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library)

Carson Mccullers

Modern Library, 1993

Audio Boost for "Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"
In rebuttal to Douglas Moran's review on this website, I have to admit I am listening to "Lonely Hunter" on audio cd. I chose it because it's quite a famous book & was pretty sensational in its day (I believe the early 40's). What makes it compelling to me is Cherry ...

Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Wisconsin Studies in ...

Carson Mccullers

University of Wisconsin Press, 2002

A treasure for McCullers' fans and literary enthusiasts
The first part of this book is McCullers' "unfinished" autobiography. For me, reading this was like having a one-on-one conversation with a writer that I have read and admired since high school. The second part, wartime correspondence between McCullers and her then ...

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Carson McCullers

Mariner Books, 2000

A Strange but Effective Story
Written in 1941, Carson McCullers' second novel probably qualifies as a novella or long short story. Surely it was light years ahead of its time as Ms. McCullers takes on homosexuality-- latent and the other kind, masochism, adultery, voyeurism, self-mutilation, a ...

The Member of the Wedding

Carson McCullers

Mariner Books, 2004

Eloquent, lovely, and sad
This is my very favorite book and, in my opinion, far superior to "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." I was not an adolescent when I read it--I was 23--but I was astonished by how often McCullers was able to perfectly describe what I had believed to be indescribable ...

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter/Reflections in a Golden Eye/The Ballad of the Sad Cafe/The Member of the ...

Carson McCullers

Library of America, 2001

The American Jane Austen?
I have read many novels by many writers, both American and foreign, but it's been a good long while since I've read something so penetrating and perceptive as Carson McCuller's first and last novels. The characters in the books, their lives and personalities, are so ...

The Member of the Wedding: The Play (New Directions Paperbook)
Carson McCullers

New Directions, 2006

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: At the suggestion of her friend Tennessee Williams, Southern writer Carson McCullers adapted her novella The Member of the Wedding into a touching and poignant play that was an enormous success when it opened on Broadway in 1950, and has long since become a classic of the American theater. ...

Member of the Wedding, The
Carson McCullers

Time, Inc., 1965

A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud (Creative Short Stories Series)

Carson McCullers

Creative Education, 1989

beautiful writing
Like Steinbeck's The Red Pony, this is a short statement about love, a statement made all the more powerful because it is framed in a humble setting, with humble characters. An old man in a bar explains, through the trials and tribulations of his life story, that ...

The mortgaged heart

Carson McCullers

Houghton Mifflin, 1971

Usual McCullers Style
Mortgaged Heart is yet another example of Carson McCullers theme of spiritual isolation. You can feel the pain of each character. If you like McCullers as much as I do this is a great one.