The Haunted Boy (Mini Modern Classics)

Author: Carson McCullers

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  • : $3.00 NZD
  • : 9780241339503
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : January 2018
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 2.99
  • : February 2018
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  • : Carson McCullers
  • : Penguin Modern
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780241339503
9780241339503

Description

His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love.'

These moving stories by one of the great masters of Southern gothic portray love, sorrow and our search for happiness and understanding.

Author description

Carson McCullers was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, including The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. McCullers suffered from ill health most of her adult life, including a series of strokes that began when she was in her 20s; she died at the age of 50. The Member of the Wedding was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991).