Carson McCullers shot to international fame at the age of 23 with the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Despite a mysterious, debilitating disease she wrote such classics as The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, adapted for Broadway and the cinema. She was a controversial figure, whose immense emotional needs often overshadowed her great charm and deep intelligence while her friends included celebrities such as Katherine Anne Porter, Truman Capote, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, WH Auden and Tennesse Williams. Above all she was a life force, a person who had a relentless need to write and did so despite great physical pain, up until her untimely death at the age of fifty. Savigneau's compassionate portrait - the first biography to be written with the full cooperation of the McCullers estate - is a unique and engaging look at one of the most enigmatic literary figures of last century.
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Review:
'A truly groundbreaking, passionate defence of a truly groundbreaking, passionate rebel' Scotsman; '(an) eminently accessible and readable work' Independent on Sunday; 'impeccably researched' Literary Review; 'a fascinating book... reminds us no one captured, as Carson did, the vast American sense of loneliness, the Deep South dislocation and the suffering it causes' Daily Mail
About the Author:
Josyane Savigneau, editor in chief of the cultural pages in Le Monde, is the author of Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life, acclaimed by Edmund White in the New York Times Book Review as 'surely the best biography to be written in French in several decades'.
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- ISBN 10 0618130985
- ISBN 13 9780618130986
- EinbandHardcover
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