I picked this up somewhere and just got around to it. My copy was published in 2000 and has the Oprah Book Club stamp. The back tells that Carson McCullers was only 23 when she wrote this book. My hat is off.
On page one, I closed the book and went to bed. It reads something like a first grade primer. There are two deaf mutes. I'm not sure why I pressed on. It wasn't terrible writing, just quiet--two very simple people with a simple life. Chapter two begins with a married couple who own a pub/diner arguing over a drunken, rambling customer. Wonderful contrast! I felt the words like never before after that silent opening.
But that's only the beginning of all the simple declarations this author makes in slow explosive ways. I'm halfway through and cannot put the book down. The hard thing to believe is that she had such a thorough understanding of man's nature at such a young age. Or that she had such patience to sit silently at the keyboard allowing her characters to act out her thoughts on subjects such as southern religion, race and politics. I am in awe and will have to get everything she ever wrote.
Has anyone else read Carson McCullers?
On page one, I closed the book and went to bed. It reads something like a first grade primer. There are two deaf mutes. I'm not sure why I pressed on. It wasn't terrible writing, just quiet--two very simple people with a simple life. Chapter two begins with a married couple who own a pub/diner arguing over a drunken, rambling customer. Wonderful contrast! I felt the words like never before after that silent opening.
But that's only the beginning of all the simple declarations this author makes in slow explosive ways. I'm halfway through and cannot put the book down. The hard thing to believe is that she had such a thorough understanding of man's nature at such a young age. Or that she had such patience to sit silently at the keyboard allowing her characters to act out her thoughts on subjects such as southern religion, race and politics. I am in awe and will have to get everything she ever wrote.
Has anyone else read Carson McCullers?