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  • okay, so I started reading this book last summer, and for reasons unknown to me it held my interest. Then school started, and I had 50 pages left and kind of left it aside. So I finally finished it. Clearly, it's not one of those "can't put it down" books, and to some it may seem very boring. But I ... Continue

    okay, so I started reading this book last summer, and for reasons unknown to me it held my interest. Then school started, and I had 50 pages left and kind of left it aside. So I finally finished it. Clearly, it's not one of those "can't put it down" books, and to some it may seem very boring. But I enjoyed it. I felt like some of it was way over my head, but nevertheless I'm glad I read it.

    

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• ― Nicole (nicoleelizabeth) said on Jul 10, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

When she was only twenty-three, Carson  McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She  was very special, one of America's superlative  writers who conjures up a vision of existence as  terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering  voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation  that underlies the human condition. This novel is  the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's  enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange  young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small  Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal.  The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the  rejected. Some fight their loneliness with  violence and depravity, Some with sex or drink, and some  -- like Mick -- with a quiet, intensely personal  search for beauty.


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