Carson McCullers: a life
V. S. Pritchett called her "a genius." Gore Vidal described her as a "beloved novelist of singular brilliance... Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure..." And Tennessee Williams said, "The only real writer the South ever turned out, was Carson." She...
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| Zusammenfassung: | V. S. Pritchett called her "a genius." Gore Vidal described her as a "beloved novelist of singular brilliance... Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure..." And Tennessee Williams said, "The only real writer the South ever turned out, was Carson." She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. Her dream was to become a concert pianist, though she'd been writing since she was sixteen and the influence of music was evident throughout her work. As a child, she said she'd been "born a man." At twenty, she married Reeves McCullers, a fellow southerner, ex-soldier, and aspiring writer ("He was the best-looking man I had ever seen"). They had a fraught, tumultuous marriage lasting twelve years and ending with his suicide in 1953. Reeves was devoted to her and to her writing, and he envied her talent; she yearned for attention, mostly from women who admired her but rebuffed her sexually. Her first novel--The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter--was published in 1940, when she was twenty-three, and overnight, Carson McCullers became the most widely talked about writer of the time. While McCullers's literary stature continues to endure, her private life has remained enigmatic and largely unexamined. Now, with unprecedented access to the cache of materials that has surfaced in the past decade, Mary Dearborn gives us the first full picture of this brilliant, complex artist who was decades ahead of her time, a writer who understood--and captured--the heart and longing of the outcast. -- |
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U.S.A. $40.00 CANADA $54.00 V. S. PRITCHETT called her “a genius.” Gore Vidal, a “beloved novelist of singular brilliance . Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure.” And Tennessee Williams proclaimed: “The only real writer the South ever turned out was Carson.” Carson McCullers’s dreamlike, lyrical novels, short stories, and plays capture an essence of lone liness and belonging and the power of loving that forged and came to define Southern Gothic writing, and placed her in the twentieth-century pantheon with such masters as Hemingway, Faulkner, Willa Cather, and Ralph Ellison. McCullers’s first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was published to loud acclaim when she was just twenty-three: overnight, she became the most widely talked about writer of the time. Now, in the first major biography in almost fifty years, Mary Dearborn draws from newly released letters, journals, and manuscripts (including tran scripts of her psychiatric sessions with her doctor, later her lover) to piece together a comprehensive and illuminating portrait of this large, complicated, passionate life. McCullers was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. Her dream was to become a concert pianist, though she’d been writing since she was sixteen, and the influence of music is evi dent throughout her work. As a child, she said she’d been “born a man.” At twenty, she married Reeves McCullers, a fellow Southerner, ex-soldier, and aspir ing writer (“He was the best-looking man I had ever seen”). Reeves was devoted to her and to her writ ing, and envied her talent; she
yearned for attention, mostly from women who admired her but rebuffed her sexually. Their fraught, tumultuous marriage lasted twelve years (during which they divorced and remarried), until his suicide in 1953. McCullers, after a lifetime of hard drinking (each morning she carried a thermos of spiked tea with sherry to her desk, a drink she called “sonny boy”), had three cerebral strokes before she was twenty-
nine that left her paralyzed on one side. Yet through out it all, she continued to write and to dream on. While McCullers’s literary stature endures, her private life has remained enigmatic and largely un examined. Now Mary Dearborn, acclaimed biogra pher of Ernest Hemingway (“The most fully faceted portrait of Hemingway now available” —The Wash ington Post), gives us the first dimensional life of this brilliant, complex woman and artist who was decades ahead of her time, a writer who understood—and made resonant—the heart and the longing of the outcast. |
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