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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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Informationen zum Autor 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 Café (1991). Klappentext 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 Caf¿i> (1991). Zusammenfassung A group of people 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.

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Authors Kasia Boddy, Carson McCullers
Assisted by Kasia Boddy (Introduction)
Publisher Penguin Books Uk
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 31.08.2000
 
EAN 9780141185224
ISBN 978-0-14-118522-4
No. of pages 336
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
Series Penguin Pocketbooks
Modern Classics
Penguin Modern Classics
MC FICTION ENG
Penguin Modern Classics
Penguin Classics
MC FICTION ENG
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Classics, Narrative theme: Interior life, c 1930 to c 1939, Georgia (US State), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary

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