When she was only twenty-three her first he Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, created a literary sensation. She is very special, one of Americas superlative writers who jures 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 dition.
A grotesque human triangle in a primitive Southern town. . . A young boy learning the difficult lessons of manhood. . . A fateful enter with his native land and former love. . . These are parts of the world of cCullers -- a world of the lost, the ihe eternal strangers at lifes feast. Here are brilliant revelations of love and longing, bitter heartbreak and occasional happiness -- tales that probe the very heart of our lives.
cCULLERS (1917-1967)
When she was only twenty-three, cCullers first he Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, became a literary sensation. Sihat time, her reputation has grown with every successive work.
Suovels as Refles In a Goldehe Member of the Wedding and Clock Without Hands have won her parison with such diverse masters as Melville, Flaubert and Faulkner -- which is to say: no critic has succeeded in easily capsulizing the full dimensions of her talent.
Perhaps none of her works more brilliantly represents the variety and riess of her art than The Ballad of the Sad Café. In the already classiovella of the title, and iales which apany it, the genius of cCullers shines forth vividly -- and unfettably.
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The Ballad of the Sad Café
Wunderkind
The Jockey
Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland
The Sojourner
A Domestic Dilemma
A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud