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Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullerswas equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writingin shorter forms. This Library of America volume bringstogether for the first time her twenty extraordinary stories, along with plays, essays, memoirs, and poems. Here are theindelible tales Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland and A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. as well as her previouslyuncollected story about the civil rights movement, TheMarch; her award- winning Broadway play The Member ofthe Wedding and the unpublished teleplay The Sojourner;twenty-two essays; and the revealing unfinished memoirIllumination and Night Glare. This wide-ranging gatheringof shorter works reveals new depths and dimensions of thewriter whom V. S. Pritchett praised for her courageousimagination one that is bold enough to consider the terriblein human nature without loss of nerve, calm, dignity, or love. "
Synopsis
A landmark gathering of
McCullers' shorter works, including all her published stories, plays, essays, poems, and an unfinished autobiography
Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullers was equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writing in shorter forms. This Library of America volume brings together for the first time her twenty extraordinary stories, along with plays, essays, memoirs, and poems. Here are the indelible tales "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland" and "A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud." as well as her previously uncollected story about the civil rights movement, "The March"; her award- winning Broadway play The Member of the Wedding and the unpublished teleplay The Sojourner; twenty-two essays; and the revealing unfinished memoir Illumination and Night Glare. This wide-ranging gathering of shorter works reveals new depths and dimensions of the writer whom V. S. Pritchett praised for her "courageous imagination--one that is bold enough to consider the terrible in human nature without loss of nerve, calm, dignity, or love."
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