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The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings - Paperback

by Carson McCullers
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Availability:In StockContributor:Carson McCullers, Margarita G. Smith (Editor), Joyce Carol Oates (Introduction by)Publish date:2005-04-05Pages:292
Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780618057054ISBN-10:618057056UPC:9780618057054Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author)Size:8.30 x 5.46 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCSBZ1WC9C

An absorbing look at the early beginnings of one of America's finest writers, The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers's work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. As new generations of readers continue to discover her work, Carson McCullers's celebrated place in American letters survives more surely than ever. Edited by McCullers's sister and with a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, The Mortgaged Heart will be an inspiration to writers young and old.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780618057054ISBN-10:618057056UPC:9780618057054Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author)Size:8.30 x 5.46 x 0.87 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCSBZ1WC9C
Smith, Margarita G.: - Margarita Smith was a magazine writer and editor, and the sister of author Carson McCullers. She edited McCuller's posthumous publication The Mortgaged Heart.McCullers, Carson: - Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock Without Hands. Born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917, she became a promising pianist and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was seventeen, but lacking money for tuition, she never attended classes. Instead she studied writing at Columbia University, which ultimately led to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the novel that made her an overnight literary sensation. On September 29, 1967, at age fifty, she died in Nyack, New York, where she is buried.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

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Carson McCullers, Margarita G. Smith (Editor), Joyce Carol Oates (Introduction by)

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Carson McCullers

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