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Very good in very good dust jacket. 600 p. Hardcover Cloth 600 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition 1975. Attractive brown boards with black buckram spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear with undamaged corners. Bumped corners. Edges have the usual yellowing. An unclipped dust jacket with slight shelf wear-a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented, vulnerable but exploitative, McCullers led a life that had all the elements--and more--of a tragic novel. From McCullers's birth in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, The Lonely Hunter thoroughly covers every significant event in, and aspect of, the writer's her rise as a young literary sensation; her emotional, artistic, and sexual eccentricities and entanglements; her debilitating illnesses; her travels in America and Europe; and the provenance of her works from their earliest drafts through their book, stage, and film versions. Virginia Spencer Carr (July 21, 1929 April 10, 2012) was an award-winning biographer of Carson McCullers, John Dos Passos and Paul Bowles.
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Good, fair. 600, illus., notes, genealogies, chronology, bibliography, index, DJ worn, soiled, edge tears/chips. Contains a short essay, entitled "Some Words Before" by Tennessee Williams. The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented, vulnerable but exploitative, McCullers led a life that had all the elements--and more--of a tragic novel. From McCullers's birth in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917 to her death in upstate NewYork in 1967, The Lonely Hunter thoroughly covers every significant event in, and aspect of, the writer's life: her rise as a young literary sensation; her emotional, artistic, and sexual eccentricities and entanglements; her debilitating illnesses; her travels in America and Europe; and the provenance of her works from their earliest drafts through their book, stage, and film versions. To research her subject, Virginia Spencer Carr visited all of the important places in McCullers' life, read virtually everything written by or about her, and interviewed hundreds of McCullers' relatives, friends, and enemies. The result is an enduring, distinguished portrait of a brilliant, but deeply troubled, writer.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Thick octavo. 600pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Small chips on spine tail, else very good in a very good age-toned dust jacket.
Add this copy of The Lonely Hunter; a Biography of Carson McCullers to cart. $125.00, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
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First Edition [stated], presumed first printing
Publisher:
Doubleday & Company, Inc
Published:
1975
Language:
English
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15928144395
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Good in Good jacket. xix, [3], 600, [2] pages. DJ has small chips and tears. Inscribed and dated by the author; on the title page. Inscription reads "For dear Ferineg, I'm so glad that Columbus, Georgia, brought us together--and that Carson McCullers was was the prime mover--but mostly, I'm pleased that you are my friend. With much love, Virginia, 23 April 1982. The book Includes A Note from the Author, Some Words Before by American Playwright Tennessee Williams, Notes, Genealogies, A Chronology of Carson Smith McCullers, Bibliography, Index, and Picture Credits. Virginia Spencer Carr (July 21, 1929-April 10, 2012) was a biographer of Carson McCullers, John Dos Passos and Paul Bowles. Carr was also a college professor for more than 25 years at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia, and Georgia State University in Atlanta. This biography captures Carson McCullers in all her enigmatic beauty, tracing her passionate wanderings from her childhood in Columbus, Georgia, to her frenetic years as a prima donna of New York literary circles, to her interludes as a resident in Europe. Paralyzed and crippled in later years by a series of violent strokes which left her an invalid, on an off, for the rest of her life, she overcame those handicaps to produce stunning literary works, including The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Member of the Wedding. Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917-September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes and most are set in the deep South. McCullers' work is often described as Southern Gothic and indicative of her southern roots. Critics also describe her writing and eccentric characters as universal in scope. Her stories have been adapted to stage and film. A stage adaptation of her novel The Member of the Wedding (1946), which captures a young girl's feelings at her brother's wedding, made a successful Broadway run in 1950-51.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A modestly worn very good copy in a spine-chipped near very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Carr to one of the longest surviving authors of the Harlem Renaissance: "For Dorothy West-To whom *The Lonely Hunter* will have special meaning because you know her works so well and empathize, too, with the women and the artist. With warm regards-Virginia Spencer Carr." Dorothy West wrote her first book, *The Living Is Easy* (1948) and was the last surviving writer of consequence that came out of the Harlem Renaissance. She was rediscovered when her second novel, *The Wedding* was published in 1995 to much acclaim. An interesting association.