num_pages: 256
description: Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of "response and responsibility--of man toward his own livingness."
language: English
title: Clock Without Hands
titlecomplete: Clock Without Hands
genres: 20th Century, American, Female Authors, Southern, Literary Fiction, Novels, Southern Gothic, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 2940
places: Georgia
publisher: Mariner Books Classics