Clock Without Hands

McCullers, Carson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140023178 ISBN 13: 9780140023176

Publisher: Penguin, 1977

Judge Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while his grandson, Jester, is drawn to Sherman, a volatile black orphan who feels the sharp sting of racial injustice. Through the eyes of these individuals the book explores the roots of racial prejudice in the 1950s.

About the Author:

Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock Without Hands. Born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917, she became a promising pianist and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was seventeen, but lacking money for tuition, she never attended classes. Instead she studied writing at Columbia University, which ultimately led to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the novel that made her an overnight literary sensation. On September 29, 1967, at age fifty, she died in Nyack, New York, where she is buried.