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Carson McCullers: A Life. [1st hardcover].
de Savigneau, Josyane (Howard, Joan E.; translator)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG+/Near Fine dj. (EX-LIBRARY copy, minimal markings. No spine creasing. Text clean/tight/crisp. Jacket label removed, no tears)
- ISBN 10
- 0395878209
- ISBN 13
- 9780395878200
- Librería
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Beverly Hills, Florida, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston/New York. Houghton Mifflin. 2001. HARDCOVER. Former Library Copy.. VG+/Near Fine dj. (EX-LIBRARY copy, minimal markings. No spine creasing. Text clean/tight/crisp. Jacket label removed, no tears). Octavo (8vo.) 12 pages of photographs. xiv. + 370pp. Includes Source Notes, Bibliography, Index. Translated from the French by Joan E. Howard. '0201' publication date code on jacket flap. First Edition. First Printing per title page date & print number line. EX-LIBRARY copy. Minimal markings. Appears unread: no spine creasing. A clean/tight/crisp copy in a complete/clean/crisp jacket. no label.
Sinopsis
"Writing is my occupation," Carson McCullers often said. "I must do it. I have done it for so long." The beloved author of such classics as THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING, and REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, McCullers began writing her first best-selling novel at the age of twenty. It was the start of a lifelong love affair with stories and language -- and of the creation of a body of work that continues to draw new generations of readers. In CARSON MCCULLERS: A LIFE, Josyane Savigneau gives us at last a truly popular biography of one of America's greatest women novelists. Carson McCullers's life story rivals the plot of any of her novels. A brilliant, sensitive artist who had a painful small-town childhood in the South and early international success, she was crippled by a mysterious disease in early adulthood. A woman who composed the most romantic of letters, she struggled to find lasting happiness with her husband, Reeves, whom she married twice. Carson wrote often of the loneliness of the human condiiton, and yet she surrounded herself with a constellation of witty, always entertaining celebrities: Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Katherine Anne Porter, Richard Wright, John Huston, and Edward Albee, among others. The first biographer to have the full cooperation of the McCullers esate, Josyane Savigneau has uncovered the private Carson McCullers, a woman who never really grew up yet was always seductive, a woman whose candor and immense emotional needs sometimes overshadowed her great charm, generosity, loyalty, humor, and deep intelligence. Above all, Carson was a life force, a person who needed to write and who did so despite great physical pain, up until the very end. Published to rave reviews in France, this passionate biography is one that "must [be] read . . . to measure the full extent of McCullers's torment and her determination to overcome her suffering" (L'EXPRESS).
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- Librería
- Booktopia
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 6111415
- Título
- Carson McCullers: A Life. [1st hardcover].
- Autor
- Savigneau, Josyane (Howard, Joan E.; translator)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- HARDCOVER. Former Library Copy.
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG+/Near Fine dj. (EX-LIBRARY copy, minimal markings. No spine creasing. Text clean/tight/crisp. Jacket label removed, no tears)
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0395878209
- ISBN 13
- 9780395878200
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin.
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston/New York.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001.
- Páginas
- xiv. + 370pp.
- Palabras clave
- Carson McCullers Biography 20th Century American Literary Biography History Criticism
- Size
- Octavo (8vo.)
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