Carson McCullers

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (2000)

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCuller's Portrait of the Faces Behind the MasksThanks to a good friend, Jeff Keeten, now residing with Dorothy and Toto,too, in Kansas, I've learned I am only gently mad. It was a relief to discover that. Because my self-analysis has been that I'm excessiv...

Clock Without Hands (1998)

I’m sorry to report that this novel is pretty much a complete disaster. It’s a study of four characters located in Milan, Georgia, at the point in the early 1950s when the civil rights movement was beginning to make itself felt in the American South. We have JT Malone, a pharmacist; Judge Clane...

The Member of the Wedding (2004)

I borrowed this from the library after I recently read ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ with pretty much no expectations and adored it. But I think this book is even better for its brevity and its superb control of its form. The author was a little more experienced this time around, and despite its...

The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (2005)

Reflections in a Golden Eye (2000)

This is a very touching and quietly profound novella. The plot involves the relationships of a small central cast, set in a peacetime army post. Two neighbouring senior officers, Captain Penderton and Major Langdon, live affluently, childless, with their wives: Leonara Penderton and Alice Langdon...