Author: carsonmccullers

Mick, garçonne passionnée et ambitieuse, erre en solitaire dans les rues du sud profond des États-Unis, happée par la musique qui s’échappe des fenêtres. Au café de Biff, Mick observe John Singer, le fascinant muet au calme olympien. D’autres personnages aussi originaux qu’attachants évoluent autour d’eux, se croisent sans se rencontrer. Ils se regardent avec une curiosité pleine de tendresse face à la cruauté de la vie et à la pauvreté, portés par leurs rêves et leur soif de justice. « Au bout de quelque temps, Mick sut quelles maisons captaient les émissions qu’elle voulait entendre. Une maison, notamment, recevait…

An “impeccable” novel about race relations and responsibility set in the civil-rights-era South, by the author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (The Atlantic Monthly). In a small Georgia town, pharmacist J. S. Malone, diagnosed with leukemia, is given a mere year to live–and a lifetime’s worth of regret over years and opportunities wasted. Meanwhile, Judge Clane, still reeling from the suicide … Clane, still reeling from the suicide of his son, looks for meaning in the past and judgment in the present. Clane’s grandson, Jester, seeks identity in the wake of his father’s selfish act. And all three…

With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters’ inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers’ finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John … John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer’s mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into…