Author: Cyndi McCullers Sweetwater County Historical Muse
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, county, sweetwater
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-07-29
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738569232
ISBN-13: 9780738569239

People have existed in southwestern Wyoming for thousands of years, yet most lacked the heartiness to settle there. Fur trappers were among the first to explore the area’s natural resources, but more importantly, they mapped the frontier, allowing westward expansion along the Oregon, California, Mormon, Cherokee, and Overland trails. Sweetwater County was formed in 1868, with the organization of the Wyoming Territory, and South Pass City became the county seat. A waning gold industry in South Pass caused the county seat to be relocated to Sweetwater County in 1875. Ironically, the Sweetwater

Author: Carson McCullers
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: hunter, lonely, heart
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2000-08-31
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 0141185228
ISBN-13: 9780141185224

"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" was Carson McCullers’ first novel, written in 1940. Set in a small town in the American South, it is the story of a group of people who have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, whose presence changes their lives. This powerful exploration of alienation is both moving and perceptive.

Author: Carson McCullers
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: directions, paperbook, new, play, wedding, member
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-05-24
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0811216551
ISBN-13: 9780811216555

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: At the suggestion of her friend Tennessee Williams, Southern writer Carson McCullers adapted her novella The Member of the Wedding into a touching and poignant play that was an enormous success when it opened on Broadway in 1950, and has long since become a classic of the American theater.With compassion, veracity and wit, in The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers depicts the intrinsically enmeshed lives of whites and blacks in the American South. Julie Harris became a star playing the awkward, twelve-year-old tomboy Frankie Adams, who fal

Author: Carson McCullers
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: stories, cafe, sad, ballad
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2005-04-05
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0618565868
ISBN-13: 9780618565863

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers’s best stories, including her beloved novella “The Ballad of the Sad Café.” A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose café serves as the town’s gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes “Wunderkind,” McCullers’s first published story written when she was only seventeen about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to becom

Author: Carson McCullers
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: hands, clock
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1998-09-15
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0395929733
ISBN-13: 9780395929735

Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers’s most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of "response and responsibility--of man toward his own livingness."

Author: Carson McCullers
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: wedding, member
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-08-13
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 0618492399
ISBN-13: 9780618492398

The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers’s classic The Member of the Wedding is now available in small- format trade paperback for the first time. Here is the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother’s wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her house servant, Berenice, and her six-year-old male cousin — not to mention her own unbridled imagination — Frankie takes on an overly active role i

Author: Carson McCullers
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: eye, golden, reflections
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2000-09-08
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0618084754
ISBN-13: 9780618084753

A new trade paperback edition of McCullers’ second novel, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and John Houston. Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS 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 flirtatious wife, Leonora. Upon the novel’s publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject matter. But a critic for Time Maga