- Social life and customs, Fiction, Translations into Korean, English fiction
The title story of this collection follows a simple triangle of unrequited love. Miss Amelia, gaunt and lonely owner of a small town store, squanders her love on cousin Lymon, the little strutting hunchback who turned the store into a cafe.
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Intimate, prestige, grave and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Carson McCullers
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 154
- Publisher
- Jin ri shi jie chu ban she, Houghton Mifflin Company, Cresset Press
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Chinese, Korean, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780140019070
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Carson McCullers was an American writer. She wrote novels, short stories, and two plays, as well as essays and some poetry. Her first novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts of the South. Her other novels have similar themes and are all set in the South. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_McCullers
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