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Carson McCullers: A Life

Here is the first truly popular biography of one of America’s greatest novelists, the author of such classics as The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, and Reflections in a Golden Eye. Carson McCullers’s life story rivals the plot of any of her novels. A brilliant, sensitive artist who had a painful small-town childhood and early international success, she was crippled by a mysterious disease in early adulthood and suffered from a fraught mother-daughter relationship, ambiguous sexuality, and a doomed marriage to an alcoholic and ultimately suicidal husband, whom she married twice. Her story also includes a large cast of witty, sometimes feuding celebrities: Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Katherine Anne Porter, Richard Wright, John Huston, Edward Albee, Ethel Waters, and Marlon Brando.The first biographer to have the full cooperation of the McCullers estate, Josyane Savigneau has uncovered the private Carson McCullers — a perpetual adolescent, a woman whose candor, immense emotional needs, even egoism sometimes overshadowed her great charm, generosity, loyalty, humor, and deep intelligence. You must read this passionate biography to measure the full extent of McCullers’s torment and her determination to overcome her suffering (L’Express).

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