mccullers collected including directions

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

154 reviews
Carson McCullers

Mariner, 2004

A Book for All Ages
This is a great story for people of all ages. As a teenager, I felt at one with the antagonist of the story. As an adult I see her transition more clearly than before. It is also a reminder of the power of the emotions of adolescence and those first real learning experiences, something I hope I will never forget.

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: and Other Stories

31 reviews
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. McCullers has such a simple technique for description and writing. It's so easy to understand, and it stays with you. Unlike a ...

Member of the Wedding, The
Carson McCullers

Time, Inc., 1965

The Member of the Wedding

74 reviews
Carson McCullers

L.A. Theatre Works, 2001

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 experiences. In some ways I think that my attachment to the book grew from my ability to relate to Frankie's anxiety. The pace of ...

Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

172 reviews
Carson McCullers

HarperAudio, 2004

GOOD GAWD - this book leaves you breathless !!!!!
This book came to me in a odd way. It was mentioned in the movie "A love song for Bobby Long". Never thought it was a real book. But googling for the title (just out of curiosity) I found it. Got very curious after having read a couple of reviews and bought it. It cost me a sleepless night. I couldn't put it down and read it in one breath. It has such an impact that it leaves one breathless. What ...

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

5 reviews
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 well thought-out and delineated that you have to wonder how a woman of 23 could put something like this together. Anyway, below is a ...

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

Mariner, 2004

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

6 reviews
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 stories and became obsessed with all of them. The meanings became clearer, the ideas behind them were revealed, and she has ...

Reflections in a Golden Eye

19 reviews
Carson McCullers

Barrie & Jenkins, 1958

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 nervous breakdown and animal cruelty in fewer than a hundred pages. In the hands of a lesser writer, this tale would have degenerated ...

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. With compassion, veracity and wit, in The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers depicts the ...

Clock Without Hands

5 reviews
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 diagnosis. There's a elderly judge who's a former congressman who really believes that the confederate money hoarded in his attic will ...

The Member of the Wedding (Time Reading Program)
Carson McCullers

TIME LIFE BOOKS, 1965

Oliver Evans says of her book, "...a subjective idyll, a unique fusion of Romantic sensibility and Platonism." A Southern writer, her work, both allegorical and realistic, is uneven: "there are passages of purest inspiration, and others that border on the pedestrian," says Evans, himself a writer with strong Southern roots. "The Member of the Wedding" is a classic work of a leading Southern novelist.

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and other stories
Carson McCullers

Bantam, 1980

Hardcover mass market paperback

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