Hikaye 1950'lerde, Amerika'nın güneyindeki hayali Milan kasabasında geçiyor. Dört ana karakterimiz var: daha kitabın ilk cümlelerinde öleceğini öğrendiğimiz 40 yaşındaki eczacı Malone, vaktiyle Amerikan senatosunda yer almış ama artık 85'ine gelmiş Yargıç Clane, yargıcın 17 yaşındaki torunu Jester ve bir de Jester'la yaşıt olan siyahi Sherman. Hepsi de oldukça iyi yazılmış, tam olarak iyi ya da kötü diyemeyeceğimiz, en önemlisi de iç dünyaları bize çok iyi yansıtılan karakterler. The other main character is J T Malone, local drugstore owner and good family man, though somewhat insecure as he has, to a certain degree, depended on his wife’s money and her work. At the beginning of the novel he learns that he has leukaemia and might be dying. Judge Clane is an old and retired judge who is considered too old-fashioned even for the people of the town, who have refused to re-elect him to Congress. Apart from his racist views, his main ambition is to have the United States recognise Confederate money and convert it into US dollars (he has some ten million Confederate dollars). He also mourns his son who killed himself and is bringing up his now grown-up grandson, whose mother died giving birth to him. The grandson, Jester, is studying law and learning to fly and is afraid of but despises his grandfather. Fiction of American writer Carson Smith McCullers explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts of the South; her novels include The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) and The Member of the Wedding (1946). Jester is a late-blossoming homosexual; Sherman is a pathological liar and the illegitimate son of a Negro the judge sent to the gallows for the “rape” of a white woman.

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The greatest prose writer that the South produced ... She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass Tennessee Williams According to a recent poll, 6 a.m is the most common alarm call, with 8% of all Americans waking up at that time. The book differs appreciably from McCullers' earlier novels. It contains, to be sure, the theme which has always been at the center of her work—man's loneliness and the eternal flaw in the machinery of love. The judge's son, we learn, turned against him; Jester's admiring devotion toward Sherman is received with chilling condescension or rudeness; Malone suffers from his complete spirtual isolation; and Sherman tries to cover up his by boasting of mythical travels, sexual conquests, and experineces of high living. But another and more helpful theme is dramatized; the novel, as Miss McCullers points out, "is about response and responsibility—of man toward his own livingness." The judge and Sherman, bemused by their obsessions, destroy themselves. But the wretched Malone, when chance singles him out to execute the verdict of the mob against Sherman, finds, for the first time, the courage to act in accordance with his conscience. And Jester emerges from his daydreams and uncertainties with the conviction that he wants to carry on his father's work as a lawyer: to fight on the side of justice against passion. Hardcover. 241p., good first edition in cloth boards and price-clipped dj with die-cut circle design in cover (die-cut has a slightly rumpled closed tear).

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J.T. MALONE: A 40 year old druggist dying of leukemia, who goes to four different doctors trying to find a diagnosis different than death. The second plot concerns Judge Clane. He has a fantastic scheme to get himself re-elected to Congress after a long absence, while also making a fortune. The judge, who drinks, laments, and lies to himself as much as any man in recent fiction, plans to introduce legislation compelling the U.S. government to redeem all outstanding Confederate currency. People best know Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941). The novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1951) also depicts loneliness and the pain of unrequited love. Yaddo in Saratoga, New York, graduated her, an alumna. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth Soft cover. Condition: Good. Moderately scuffed covers with rub marks on spine and yellowed text. Vintage cover design in the first printing thus (1965) in this Penguin Book series (#2317). Book.

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While it is not unusual to find echoes of William Faulkner in the works of Carson McCullers, this 1961 novel calls him to mind the most vividly of any. Race is a constant lurker in both authors’ oeuvre, but it screams its way to the forefront in this, her last novel. Ook hier beschrijft ze 4 personages wiens levens op één of andere manier met mekaar verweven zijn. McCullers weet ook hier weer een zeer melancholieke sfeer op te bouwen en kan ze als geen andere de (schijnbaar) monotone en weinig tot de verbeelding sprekende levenslopen zeer aanschouwelijk en boeiend te vertellen. Judge Clane dominates most of the action in a novel which begins, follows, and concludes with Malone in situations completely unrelated to the judge’s motives and spirit.

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I could not help wondering how many of these feelings were Carson McCullers’ own reaction to her bad health and sure knowledge that she was on a downward slope toward her own demise. This was her last book, written in 1961, and although she did not die until 1967, she was never well during those six intervening years. She suffered during her lifetime from a chronic heart disease, and she had repeated strokes that weakened her and left her in extreme pain and robbed of dexterity. Mrs. McCullers repeatedly loses control of her material. Long passages of groovy, hip talk between Sherman and Jester lead nowhere. What begins (with great beauty, I thin) to be a pathos-laden study of a small man’s last days of life turns into a bizarre recitation of a screwball’s abberation, irrelevant visitations to memory, and senile schemes of glory. One of the main characters in the story is an elderly judge, or rather Judge, a former Congressman, who has an exceedingly high regard for himself and excessive sense of his own importance. His wife, Miss Missy, has recently died and his son, Johnny, is also dead: his grandson, Jester, lives with him.

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However, there are many levels on which this novel simply does not work, not the least of which is the unbroken feeling that you are standing outside the story just watching it from afar. It is a very emotional subject–Faulkner always makes me squirm and cry, McCullers just made me tense and left me cold. I could not muster sympathy for any of the characters, including the pharmacist, J. T. Malone, who has been handed a death sentence by his doctor when the story begins.Carson McCullers never fails to impress me. In this grim novel of the Southern Gothic tradition, she examines the growing race tensions at the cusp of the civil rights movement, inter-generational gaps and relations, and most importantly the theme of life vs. death. Sheer genius from the first line: "Death is always the same, but each man dies in his own way." When her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was published in 1940 she became the toast of the literary scene. The novel was wildly successful, more so than her next three works, which were all published before her thirtieth birthday. Una historia turbia envuelve la muerte del hijo del juez, una joven promesa de la abogacía, y conforme vamos leyendo se van descubriendo los secretos de esta familia. The late behavior of Malone, standing against all he has supported in the past, cannot be reconciled with his previously weak character and his adolescent hero worship of Judge Clane.