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Edited by McCullers’s sister and with a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, The Mortgaged Heart will be an inspiration to writers young and old.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carson McCullers","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53149622829347,"sku":"9780618057054","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780618057054.jpg?v=1741146353"},{"product_id":"clock-without-hands","title":"Clock Without Hands","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet 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 change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of \"response and responsibility--of man toward his own livingness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carson McCullers","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53153929363747,"sku":"9780395929735","price":18.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780395929735.jpg?v=1741160294"},{"product_id":"reflections-in-a-golden-eye","title":"Reflections In A Golden Eye","description":"A new trade paperback edition of McCullers' second novel, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and John Houston.\u003cbr\u003e     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. Upon the novel's publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject matter. But a critic for Time Magazine wrote, \"In almost any hands, such material would yield a rank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase.\" Written during a time when McCullers's own marriage to Reeves was on the brink of collapse, her second novel deals with her trademark themes of alienation and unfulfilled loves.","brand":"Carson McCullers","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53154064302371,"sku":"9780618084753","price":10.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780618084753.jpg?v=1741160644"},{"product_id":"the-member-of-the-wedding","title":"The Member Of The Wedding","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eTwelve-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.","brand":"Carson McCullers","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53158928384291,"sku":"9780618492398","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780618492398.jpg?v=1741175894"},{"product_id":"collected-stories-of-carson-mccullers","title":"Collected Stories Of Carson Mccullers","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe novelist, dramatist, and poet Carson McCullers was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIn nineteen stories that explore her signature themes of wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South, McCullers's novellas \"The Member of the Wedding\" and \"The Ballad of the Sad Cafe\" are also included. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[These novellas are] assuredly among the masterpieces of our language,\" Tennesee Williams said.","brand":"Carson McCullers","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53162028204323,"sku":"9780395925058","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780395925058.jpg?v=1741185982"},{"product_id":"the-ballad-of-the-sad-cafe-and-other-stories","title":"The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe: and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers’s best stories, including her beloved novella “The Ballad of the Sad Café.”\u003c\/strong\u003e \"Glowingly impressive, informed with feeling and humor and poetry, [and with] a sure knowledge of the strange forces that bind together all humanity — whether for good or for evil.\"—Los Angeles Daily NewsA haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the the title novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose café serves as the town’s gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes “Wunderkind,” McCullers’s first published story written when she was only seventeen about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist. The Ballad of the Sad Café is a brilliant study of love and longing from one of the South’s finest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carson McCullers","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53163501355299,"sku":"9780618565863","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780618565863.jpg?v=1741190787"},{"product_id":"heart-is-a-lonely-hunter","title":"Heart Is A Lonely Hunter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the reader.”--\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWonderfully 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carson McCullers","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":54447522447651,"sku":"9780618526413","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780618526413.jpg?v=1761720498"},{"product_id":"the-member-of-the-wedding-a-novel","title":"The Member of the Wedding: A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eTwelve-year-old Frankie is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother’s wedding. 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