Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers\'s first novel created a literary sensation.
Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, some with sex or drink, and some--like Mick--with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty..
The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected.
The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal.
The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly.
This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers\'s enduring masterpiece.
She was very special, one of America\'s superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers\'s first novel created a literary sensation
