In Carson McCullers' Erzählungen wimmelt es von Sonderlingen und rätselhaften Begebenheiten. Da gibt es zum Beispiel zwei Jungs, die nie einen Teppich überqueren, oder einen Hund, der rückwärts trippelt. Am befremdlichsten jedoch ist die...

Carson McCullers was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, including The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern...

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The novelist, dramatist, and poet Carson McCullers was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction. In nineteen stories that explore her signature themes of wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of...

Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, this novel tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and...