pp. xii + 370, 20 illus., biblio., index. Minor bumping to extremities, dj has some nicks edgewear. The life of Carson McCullers (1917-1967) rivals the plot of any of her stories. She had a painful small-town childhood in the South and shot from obscurity to international fame at the age of 23 with the publication of her first novel, "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter". Despite a mysterious and debilitating disease that haunted her from early adulthood, she went on the write works such as "The Member of the Wedding", "Reflections in a Golden Eye" and "The Ballad of Sad Cafe", adapted for Broadway and the cinema. [28]

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