{"product_id":"collected-stories-of-carson-mccullers-9780395925058","title":"Collected Stories of Carson McCullers","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe novelist, dramatist, and poet Carson McCullers was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIn nineteen stories that explore her signature themes of wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South, McCullers's novellas \"The Member of the Wedding\" and \"The Ballad of the Sad Cafe\" are also included. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[These novellas are] assuredly among the masterpieces of our language,\" Tennesee Williams said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcCullers, Carson:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Member of the Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReflections in a Golden Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eClock Without Hands\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50704808182034,"sku":"9780395925058","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3f547eda-7263-49b6-bc53-08acac513384.jpg?v=1734480191","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/collected-stories-of-carson-mccullers-9780395925058","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}