The Mortgaged Heart. - Hardcover

McCullers, Carson And Margarita G. Smith,(Edited By)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395109531 ISBN 13: 9780395109533

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1971

Synopsis

292 pages. Ex-Library. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

About this title

About the Author:

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).

From the Back Cover:

Here are some of the landmarks in the development of McCullers's marvellous literary career: 'Wunderkind', her first published story, 'The Mute', her outline of what was to become The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, as well as pieces on Brooklyn, her neighbourhood, on civilian life in wartime, on Christmas, on writers, and her reflections, which were beautifully realised, on the art of writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0395109531
• ISBN 13: 9780395109533
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1