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Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings (LOA #287): Complete stories by McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967, author; McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. Member of the wedding; McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. Sojourner; McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. Square root of wonderful; Dews, C. L. Barney (Carlos Lee Barney), 1963- editor is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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As a novelist, Carson McCullers created such classics of Southern literature as The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and The Ballad of the Sad Caf . But she began her career writing short stories, and never stopped. This Library of America volume offers a landmark gathering of McCullerss shorter works, including all her published stories, complete here for the first time, plus plays, essays, poems, and an unfinished autobiography. McCullers had a special genius for crafting concise, indelible portraits of characters struggling to feel at home in the world. From precocious early efforts such as Sucker, the first work she dared show her family, and Wunderkind, the tragicomic tale of a piano prodigy published when she was just nineteen, to her final published work of fiction, the previously uncollected civil rights allegory The March, which appeared in Redbook just months before her death in 1967, her stories display her characteristic sensitivity and haunting strangeness. In A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. an aging drifter tells a twelve-year-old boy about the peculiar science he has fashioned to cope with lost love. The Sojourner follows an expatriates return to America, where he comes face
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- Author
- McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967, author; McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. Member of the wedding; McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. Sojourner; McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967. Square root of wonderful; Dews, C. L. Barney (Carlos Lee Barney), 1963- editor
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y.: The Library of America
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781598535112
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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