ISBN: 9780618562039 0618562036

Category: Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors)

Page count: 336

The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the twentieth century.<br> <br> <br> <br> "I love this book! It's a great, great read and not hard at all." -- Oprah Winfrey<br> <br> <br> <br> In a Georgia mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic deaf-mute, John Singer, draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a doctor, a widowed café owner, and a young girl. Each yearns for escape from small town life, but the young girl, Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music.<br> <br> <br> <br> Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated--and, through Mick, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.<br> <br> <br> <br> Featured in Oprah's Book Club 2004