Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers (English) Paperback Book

Description: Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers The aged Judge Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while his grandson, Jester, is involuntarily drawn to Sherman, a volatile black orphan who feels the sharp sting of racial injustice. Through the eyes of these individuals, the author explores the roots of racial prejudice, and the dual moralities of the towns leading whites. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Impeccable ... The most impressive of her novels Atlantic MonthlyIn this thoughtful and moving novel, four men find themselves inextricably bound together by their past histories. The aged Judge Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while his grandson, Jester, is involuntarily drawn to Sherman, a volatile black orphan who feels the sharp sting of racial injustice, especially when he finds out the truth about his parentage. Through the eyes of these individuals Carson McCullers explores the roots of racial prejudice and the dual moralities of the towns leading whites. Author Biography 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 United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. McCullers suffered from ill health most of her adult life, including a series of strokes that began when she was in her 20s; she died at the age of 50. The Member of the Wedding was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991). Review The greatest prose writer that the South produced ... She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass -- Tennessee WilliamsOf all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure -- Gore VidalAgain [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in mens hearts and minds * New York Herald-Tribune * Kirkus US Review This newest addition to the slender output of one of the few first-rate novelists of our time embellishes an already fine literary reputation though it lacks the sting of her previous work. Clock Without Hands is written in the authors usual fashion - with great narrative skill and precise characterization, employing a hero who serves both as witness and participant to the main events of the plot. In this case, J. T. Malone, a dogged and ordinary pharmacist, learns that he is dying of leukemia. His internal struggle towards salvation is counterpointed against that of the towns leading family, whose sole survivors are a Judge and his grandson. The destiny of all three is linked with Sherman Pew, a Negro adolescent with blue eyes, orphaned at birth, who is the embodiment of their guilt. The Judge must cope with the mystery of his sons suicide years before; the grandson searches for his identity in his fathers death; the Negro pursues his own reality in the form of his undisclosed parentage. Malone, alone, must justify all of life. The lines weave, then merge, into one moment when each must respond to the Negros move-into a white neighborhood, involving them in the moral responsibility for his life or death when a citizens committee acts to bomb him. The author has resolved her plot in a more affirmative tone than in her previous stories. Malone, dying, personifies the common bond in mankind that would erase the aloneness. He finds the unifying force- man suffering, no longer the great equalizer in the face of death. Alone, he relates to both life and death. (Kirkus Reviews) Review Text The greatest prose writer that the South produced ... She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass Review Quote The greatest prose writer that the South produced ... She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass--Tennessee Williams Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure--Gore Vidal Again [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in mens hearts and minds-- New York Herald-Tribune Details ISBN0140083588 Author Carson McCullers Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 1986 ISBN-10 0140083588 ISBN-13 9780140083583 Format Paperback Publication Date 1986-04-24 Imprint Penguin Classics Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.52 Birth 1917 Death 1967 Edition 1st Media Book Series Penguin Modern Classics Language English Pages 208 UK Release Date 1986-04-24 Alternative 9780718196103 Audience General NZ Release Date 2008-03-27 AU Release Date 2008-03-27 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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