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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was Carson McCullers' first novel, written in 1940. Set in a small town in the American South, it is the story of a group of people who 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. This powerful exploration of alienation is both moving and perceptive.

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-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away.

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 Amelia gir ham husrom, og fra den dagen forandres alt. Landhandelen blir til en munter kafé og byen og innbyggerne våkner til liv når fabrikkfløyten signaliserer at arbeidsdagen er over. En dag banker eksmannen på døren og Miss Amelia innhentes av fortiden. Det blir begynnelsen på et trekantdrama som ikke ligner på noe annet i verdenslitteraturen. Carson McCullers mesterverk Balladen om den bedrøvelige kafé foregår i de amerikanske sørstatene der lenkegjengens sang lyder som et gresk kor. Men det er også en inderlig sang om kjærlighet og ensomhet og om når kjærlighet blir til vold, hat og svik.

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 og den krakilske kommunisten. Singer er der for alle, mens han lengter intenst etter sin greske venn Antonapulos som ble lagt inn på asylet i en annen by.McCullers gir et lavmælt og krystallklart bilde av den daglige kampen omkring klasse, rase og kjønn og skildrer det fattige og harde livet i byen. Hjertet er en ensom jeger er debutboka til amerikanske Carson McCullers, utgitt i 1940, da hun bare var 23 år gammel. Boken ble en sensasjon og gjorde navnet hennes kjent verden over. Hun viser i debuten en sjelden litterær modenhet, en menneskekunnskap og en livsinnsikt som treffer leseren midt i hjertet. Det er en inntrengende bok, full av ømme, varme og bittert sanne portretter.

From the master of Southern Gothic, Carson McCullers's coming-of-age story like no other about a young girl's fascination with her brother's wedding.Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother's wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her family maid, Berenice, and her six-year-old cousin?not to mention her own unbridled imagination?Frankie takes on an overly active role in the wedding, hoping even to go, uninvited, on the honeymoon, so deep is her desire to be a member of something larger, more accepting than herself.

The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century.?A remarkable book...From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the reader.?In a Georgia Mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic John Singer, draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a doctor, a widowed café owner, and a young girl. Each yearns for escape from small town life, but the young girl, Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music.Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated?and, through Mick, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.

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 Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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 his grandson, Jester, is involuntarily drawn to Sherman, a volatile black orphan who feels the sharp sting of racial injustice, especially when he finds out the truth about his parentage. Through the eyes of these individuals Carson McCullers explores the roots of racial prejudice and the dual moralities of the town's leading whites.

The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers"e;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 the working outline of "e;The Mute,"e; which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

McCullers' second novel, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, is set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora.

Dictated in an idiomatic, associative style, this book exposes the doubleness of Carson McCullers's life. A mine of information for anyone interested in McCullers and American literary life in the 1950s, these memoirs are also a testament to the courage and love of life of their author.