The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter/ The Member of the Wedding - Rilegato

McCullers, Carson

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ISBN 10: 0547577540 ISBN 13: 9780547577548

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011

Riassunto

“Like all writers of original genius, Miss McCullers convinces us that we have missed something which was plainly to be seen in the real world . . . She is a master of peculiar perception and an incomparable storyteller.” —V. S. Pritchett

Upon publication of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its compassionate glimpses into its characters’ inner lives, her story gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated. In The Member of the Wedding, McCullers tells the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother’s upcoming marriage. It is a coming-of-age story that showcases McCullers at her most sensitive and enduring best.

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Heart is a Lonely Hunter:

"A remarkable book." —New York Times

"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter has remarkable power, sweep and certainty . . . Her art suggests a Van Gogh painting peopled with Faulkner figures." —The New York Times Book Review

"[McCullers] writes with a calm and factual realism, and with a deep and abiding insight into human psychology. She does so without an iota of vulgarity and bawdiness, in a manner which many a present day novelist would do well to study." —Boston Globe

Member of the Wedding:

"McCullers's best. An unusual story of a very sensitive child... [that] holds you by the very brilliance of its writing." —Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"A serious attempt to recapture that elusive moment when childhood melts into adolescene...touching." —Time

"Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed. Carson McCullers's language has the freshness, quaintness, and gentleness of a sensitive child." —New York Times

"Poignant and arresting, amazing perceptive and exquisitely wrought." —Boston Herald

"There is an almost perfect harmony between the theme of this book and the prose in which it is expressed, for the prose is lyrical and sensitive and always fresh." —Chicago Tribune

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Book by McCullers Carson

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0547577540
• ISBN 13: 9780547577548
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 530