Det är slutet av 1930-talet och platsen är Georgia. I Europa hotar kriget hela kontinenten, men i de amerikanska sydstaterna är det som om tiden stått stilla. Den dövstumme John Singer har inrättat en tillvaro som bygger på fasta rutiner. Han går ti…
A group of people have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, whose presence changes their lives.
'A masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw' Time Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a Golden Eye tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Maj…
The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding is now available in small- format trade paperback for the first time. Here is th…
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, th…
A collection of Carson McCullers' stories, including her novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and "Wunderkind".
I den lilla staden i Georgia härskar lugnet, även om permissionssoldater gör de stekheta gatorna osäkra över veckosluten. Men så en dag förändras allt för den tolvåriga Frankie: hennes bror presenterar sin blivande fru. Genast börjar Frankie förbere…
'Impeccable ... The most impressive of her novels' Atlantic Monthly In this thoughtful and moving novel, four men find themselves inextricably bound together by their past histories. The aged Judge Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while…
Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of…
This collection of nineteen stories includes "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland," "The Haunted Boy," "The Member of the Wedding," "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," several early stories, and other important works.
'Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed' The New York Times With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-ye…
Six stories including "Wunderkind," "A Domestic Dilemma," and "The Sojourner" accompany The Ballad of the Sad Café, a novella about shattered dreams in a small Southern town. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding. Penguin Moder…
Miss Amelia driver ett framgångsrikt destilleri och en handelsbod. En dag kommer en puckelryggig man förbi och från den dagen förändras allt i staden. Snart öppnas ett café och staden och dess invånare lever upp så fort fabriksvisslan signalerar arb…
Døvstumme Singer blir en slags skriftefar, eller klagemur, for en fargerik samling mennesker i en liten sørstatsby på 1930-tallet. Alle som én betror de seg til han: Ungpiken som elsker musikk, den sorte doktor Copeland, den godhjertede barkeeperen…
Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her the greatest prose writer that the So…
A new trade paperback edition of McCullers' second novel, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Brando, and John Houston. Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS tells the story of Captai…
More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare , will be published for the first time. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation-the author of Member of the Wedding,…
Miss Amelia er sterk, høy og velbeslått og driver et fremgangsrikt brenneri og en landhandel. At hun en gang var gift i bare ti dager, er det ingen som snakker høyt om. En dag kommer en pukkelrygget mann til byen. Han kaller seg fetter Lymon. Miss A…
When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic. This Library of Ameri…
Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullers was equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writing in shorter forms. This Library of America volume brings together for the first time her twenty extraordinary stories, along wit…
Die gesammelten Erzählungen von Carson McCullers in einer schönen Geschenkausgabe.
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 mo…
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 a…
I en liten stad i Georgia i den amerikanska Södern utspelas ett drama som involverar fyra män vilka var och en på sitt sätt har nått en avgörande punkt i livet.Det är apotekaren som får besked om att han är döende och börjar försöka ställa saker och…
