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Hjärtat jagar allena

AvCarson McCullers

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

239 kr

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Ett av de stora moderna amerikanska författarskapen i ny utgåva

»Carson McCullers har på ett oöverträffat sätt utforskat människans hjärta.« Tennessee Williams

De båda döva männen John Singer och Spiros Antonopoulos bor tillsammans i ett litet brukssamhälle i 1930-talets Georgia. När Antonopoulos blir sjuk och tvingas läggas in för vård i en annan stad flyttar Singer från deras gemensamma lägenhet och blir inneboende hos en familj, där han blir vän med deras missförstådda dotter Mick Kelly. Den gamla tillvaron med dess vanor bryts, och snart är Singer omgiven av nya människor, vars liv och vedermödor tecknar sig mot bakgrund av hans välvilliga och inbjudande tystnad. Hjärtat jagar allena kom ut 1940 och blev en omedelbar litterär sensation. På ett ojämförligt sätt låter McCullers sina romanfigurer gestalta de sociala och politiska klyftor, den fattigdom, rasism och individualism, som både då och nu präglar USA. Romanen klättrade till toppen av försäljningslistorna och blev början på ett av de stora moderna amerikanska författarskapen. I översättning av Nils Jacobsson.

CARSON MCCULLERS [1917-1967], född i Columbus, Georgia, var en amerikansk författare, dramatiker och poet. Hennes verk ger röst åt de marginaliserade, bortglömda och förtryckta, och utspelar sig till stor del i den amerikanska södern. Mest känd är hon för debutromanen Hjärtat jagar allena [The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter], som betraktas som en omistlig klassiker och bland annat placerades på plats 17 när Modern Library rankade 1900-talets bästa engelskspråkiga romaner.

»En magnifik roman.« New York Times

Clock Without Hands

AvCarson McCullers

Häftad, Engelska, 1986

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143 kr

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'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 town's leading whites.

Heart is a Lonely Hunter

AvCarson McCullers

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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139 kr

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'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee WilliamsOften cited as one of the great novels of twentieth-century American fiction, Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the café where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry socialist drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant, and he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways the could never imagine. Moving, sensitive and deeply humane, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter explores loneliness, the human need for understanding and the search for love.

Mortgaged Heart

AvCarson McCullers

Häftad, Engelska, 1985

143 kr

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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 the working outline of "The Mute," which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

Reflections in a Golden Eye

AvCarson McCullers

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

82 kr

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOn a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain’s wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderton – unhappily married to the unfaithful Leonora – in turn erotically fixates on Williams. Spare, muscular and sensual, with the dramatic vision of a Greek myth, Carson McCullers’ novella is a timeless work about the alienation of forbidden desire.

The Member of the Wedding

AvCarson McCullers

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

272 kr

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Member of the Wedding

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Häftad, Engelska, 2001

143 kr

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'Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed' The New York TimesWith delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away.

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Ballad of the Sad Café

AvCarson McCullers

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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150 kr

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'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York TimesFew writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers, and The Ballad of the Sad Café collects her best-loved novella together with six short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Miss Amelia Evans, tall, strong and nobody's fool, runs a small-town store. Except for a disastrous marriage that lasted just ten days, she has always lived alone. Then Cousin Lymon appears from nowhere, a strutting hunchback who steals Miss Amelia's heart. Together they transform the store into a lively, popular café where the locals come to drink and gossip. But when her rejected and dangerous ex-husband Marvin Macy returns, the result is a bizarre love triangle that brings with it violence, hatred and betrayal. 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 become a great pianist.

Reflections in a Golden Eye

AvCarson McCullers

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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'McCullers shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men's hearts and minds' New York Herald-Tribune Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a Golden Eye tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual man whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous 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 magazine wrote, 'In almost any hands, such material would yield a rank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase.' Written during a time when McCullers's own marriage to Reeves was on the brink of collapse, the author's second novel deals with her trademark themes of alienation and unfulfilled loves.

Ballad of the Sad Café

AvCarson McCullers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

168 kr

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers. The Ballad of the Sad Café is her masterpiece: an unruly, bittersweet novella concerning the most unlikely of love triangles.'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

Heart is a Lonely Hunter

AvCarson McCullers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

202 kr

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Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the café where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry socialist drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant, and he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways they could never imagine. Moving, sensitive and deeply humane, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter explores loneliness, the human need for understanding and the search for love.

Illumination and Night Glare

The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers

AvCarson McCullers

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

254 kr

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More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare , will be published for the first time. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of her generation—the author of Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye , and The Ballad of Sad Cafe —died of a stroke at the age of fifty before finishing this, her last manuscript. Editor Carlos L. Dews has faithfully brought her story back to life, complete with never-before-published letters between McCullers and her husband Reeves, and an outline of her most famous novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter .Looking back over her life from a precocious childhood in Georgia to her painful decline from a series of crippling strokes, McCullers offers poignant and unabashed remembrances of her early writing success, her family attachments, a troubled marriage to a failed writer, and friendships with literary and film luminaries (Gypsy Rose Lee, Richard Wright, Isak Dinesen, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe), and the intense relationships of the important women in her life.

All the Love You Can Use: The Letters of Carson McCullers

AvCarson McCullers,Carlos Dews

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

654 kr

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Collected Stories of Carson Mccullers

AvCarson McCullers

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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282 kr

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This collection of nineteen stories includes "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland," "The Haunted Boy," "The Member of the Wedding," "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," several early stories, and other important works.