The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: Pocket Penguins
Autor Carson McCullersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 aug 2016
Making its twenty-three-year-old author an overnight literary sensation, this story of isolated, lost lives intersecting in a small town in the American South is a masterpiece of humane sensitivity.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241259740
ISBN-10: 0241259746
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 111 x 181 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Pocket Penguins
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241259746
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 111 x 181 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Pocket Penguins
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Carson
McCullerswas
born
in
1917.
She
is
the
critically
acclaimed
author
of
several
popular
novels
in
the
1940s
and
'50s,
includingThe
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
Weddingwas
dramatized
for
the
stage
in
the
1950s
and
filmed
in
1952
and
1997.
Other
films
based
on
her
books
areReflections
in
a
Golden
Eye(1967,
with
Elizabeth
Taylor
and
Marlon
Brando),The
Heart
is
a
Lonely
Hunter(1968,
starring
Alan
Arkin)
andThe
Ballad
of
the
Sad
Café(1991).
Recenzii
The
greatest
prose
writer
that
the
South
produced
...
She
has
examined
the
heart
of
man
with
an
understanding
that
no
other
writer
can
hope
to
surpass
A remarkable book ... [McCullers] writes with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming
Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure
Again [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men's hearts and minds
A remarkable book ... [McCullers] writes with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming
Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure
Again [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men's hearts and minds