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Carson Mccullers: a Life
de Savigneau, Josyane
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0704350866
- ISBN 13
- 9780704350861
- Librería
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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Sobre este artículo
London. London: The Women's Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2001. 1st British Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket is rubbed with light creasing to extremities, in fresh mylar cover. Book has no defects; pages are clean and crisp, binding is tight; book appears unread. . Compassionate and comprehensive biography of the great American writer, translated by Joan E. Howard. Includes 12 pages of b/w photographic plates. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. First British edition. Translated from the original French by Joan E. Howard. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 370 pages. Signed by Author. F1 .
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
- Sweet Beagle Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 25157
- Título
- Carson Mccullers: a Life
- Autor
- Savigneau, Josyane
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edición
- 1st British Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0704350866
- ISBN 13
- 9780704350861
- Editorial
- The Women's Press
- Lugar de publicación
- London. London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Palabras clave
- Literary Biography, American South, Women's Studies, American Literature
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Authors And Writers; Literature;
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