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      ISBN: 0881841234

      ISBN13: 9780881841237

      The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers

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      The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Caf , Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented, vulnerable but exploitative, McCullers led a life that had all the elements--and more--of a tragic novel.From McCullers's birth in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, The Lonely Hunter thoroughly covers every significant event in, and aspect of, the writer's life: her rise as a young literary sensation; her emotional, artistic, and sexual eccentricities and entanglements; her debilitating illnesses; her travels in America and Europe; and the provenance of her works from their earliest drafts through their book, stage, and film versions.To research her subject, Virginia Spencer Carr visited all of the important places in McCullers's life, read virtually everything written by or about her, and interviewed hundreds of McCullers's relatives, friends, and enemies. The result is an enduring, distinguished portrait of a brilliant, but deeply troubled, writer. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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      Rated 5 stars
      Standout biography!

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      If one wants to start reading bios this is the one to start with,and if you can't find this book in your local library please buy it because this book by Virginia Spencer Carr is well written she knows her subject. Carson Mccullers came alive for me I love that she wrote blacks with dignity when other's writers at that time wrote nothing but falsehoods and myths but I also couldn't stand how she treated her husband and siblings...

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      598 pages of a Unique Talent & Troubled Life

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      Impressively detailed account of the life of one of America's great southern writers. In her lifetime, Carson McCullers was many things to many people, and the conflicting accounts are fascinating. She could be very charming and attentive, a soft-spoken original with deeply engaging, large eyes. But she was a difficult friend to many, becoming obsessively clingy and demanding of attention. A bitch and an angel; as unshakably...

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