Understanding Carson McCullers (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr
Published: January 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780872496613
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; McCullers, Carson,; 20th Century American Novel And Short Story; American English; Literature: Classics; USA; Southern States; 20th century; 1917-1967; Criticism and interpretation; History; Women and literature
First sentence: Carson McCullers left behind an impressive literary legacy when she died at the age of fifty in 1967: four novels, a novella, two plays, twenty short stories, some two dozen nonfiction pieces published in such magazines as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Redbook, McCall's, Esquire, and Saturday Review, a book of children's verse, and a handful of poems.