Carson McCullers

The Member of the Wedding is a 1946 novel by Southern writer Carson McCullers. It took McCullers five years to complete, although she interrupted the work for a few months to write the short novel The Ballad of the Sad Café. In a salacious letter to her husband Reeves McCullers, she explained that the novel was "one …

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 …

No Sul profundo dos Estados Unidos, em plena década da Grande Depressão, num cenário desolado, de pobreza, intolerância e isolamento, John Singer, um mudo, torna-se de súbito confidente de um grupo de personagens desenquadradas da sociedade. Todos procuram à sua maneira preencher o vazio deixado pelos sonhos perdidos …

Reflections in a Golden Eye is a 1941 gay novel by American author Carson McCullers. It first appeared in Harper's Bazaar in 1940, serialized in the October–November issues. The book was published by Houghton Mifflin on February 14, 1941, to mostly poor reviews. The book was dedicated to the Swiss journalist, travel …