Carson McCullers : a life /

V. S. Pritchett called her "a genius." Gore Vidal described her as a "beloved novelist of singular brilliance. Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure." And Tennessee Williams said, "The only real writer the South ever turned out, was Carson." She was...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dearborn, Mary V. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2024].
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Wunderkind
  • That rainbow youth of mine
  • Charming the skin off a snake
  • A young knight
  • Flowering jazz passion
  • A bit of holy terror
  • I feel that book with something like my whole body
  • Practically paradise
  • Our love for each other is like a sort of natural law
  • Like a broken doll
  • The jigger got bigger and bigger
  • I am an invalid
  • Harder than marble
  • Grappa rather than gin
  • A colossal power of destruction
  • Endings are knives
  • I seen the little lamp
  • i trust you
  • "That green and glowing Spring"
  • Insatiability for living
  • The sad, happy life of Carson McCullers.