Clock without Hands
Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the...
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Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of "response and responsibility--of man toward his own livingness."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780395929735 (0395929733)
Publish date: September 15th 1998
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Americana,
Southern,
Modern Classics,
Gothic,
Southern Gothic,
American Classics
Read combined review here: 'Complete Novels of Carson McCullers'
Published in 1961, this story is set in a small town in southern USA. The overt story concerns race, justice and to some extent mortality, though there are plenty of other threads. However, it's the examination of the protagonists' views on race that are most interesting and, to some extent troublin...
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