{"product_id":"complete-novels-the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunterreflections-in-a-golden-eyethe-ballad-of-the-sad-cafethe-member-of-the-weddingthe-clock-without-hands-library-of-america-9781931082037","title":"Complete Novels: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter\/Reflections in a Golden Eye\/The Ballad of the Sad Cafe\/The Member of the Wedding\/The Clock Without Hands (Library of America)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940  Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic. This Library of America volume collects McCullerss complete novels for the first time in a single-volume edition that reveals the power and breadth of her haunting vision.  McCullerss gift  writes Joyce Carol Oates  was to evoke  through an accumulation of images and musically repeated phrases  the singularity of experience  not to pass judgment on it. McCullers effortlessly conveyed the raw anguish of her characters and the weird beauty of their perceptions. Set in small Georgia towns that are at once precisely observed and mythically resonant  McCullerss novels explore the strange  sometimes grotesque inner lives of characters who are often marginal and misunderstood. Above all  McCullers possessed an unmatched ability to capture the bewilderment and fragile wonder of adolescence.  In The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)  one of the most extraordinary debuts in modern American literature  an enigmatic deaf-mute draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker  a young girl  a doctor  and a widowed owner of a small-town caf. The disfiguring violence of desire is explored with shocking intensity in two shorter works  Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941) and The Ballad of the Sad Caf (1943).  The Member of the Wedding (1946)  thought by many to be McCullerss masterpiece  hauntingly depicts a young girls fascination with her brothers wedding. In 13-year-old Frankie Addams  confused  easily wounded  yet determined to survive  McCullers created her most indelible protagonist. Clock Without Hands (1960)  her final novel  was completed against great odds in the midst of tremendous physical suffering. Set against the background of court-ordered school integration  it contains some of McCullerss most forceful social criticism.  LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing  and keeping permanently in print  Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date  authoritative editions that average 1 000 pages in length  feature cloth covers  sewn bindings  and ribbon markers  and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647589998645,"sku":"ByrdShop_1931082030","price":66.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781931082037.jpg?v=1781694614","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/complete-novels-the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunterreflections-in-a-golden-eyethe-ballad-of-the-sad-cafethe-member-of-the-weddingthe-clock-without-hands-library-of-america-9781931082037","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}