by Carson McCullers · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140038750
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«The Mortgaged Heart» is a collection of stories, essays and poems by Carson McCullers, published by Penguin in paperback (304 pages, in English).
The volume brings together early material by Carson McCullers: short stories, articles, poems and reflections on the craft of writing, mostly composed before she turned nineteen. These pages show her literary evolution and document the original outline of «The Mute», the seed of her novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
This edition was prepared by Carson McCullers's sister and includes an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates.
A book for writers and for those who want to discover the literary beginnings of a classic American author.
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes. Most are set in the Deep South.
