- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (26 July 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140181318
- ISBN-13: 978-0140181319
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,234,313 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Four men, young and old, have distinct feelings about death, love and justice, yet their past histories are inextricably bound together. Carson McCullers explores the roots of racial prejudice, so strong in the fifties, and the dual morality of the town's leading whites.
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Carson McCullers was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, including The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. McCullers suffered from ill health most of her adult life, including a series of strokes that began when she was in her 20s; she died at the age of 50. The Member of the Wedding was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Café (1991).
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Death is always the same, but each man dies in his own way. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Death is always the same, but each man dies in his own way. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I spent some time over all of Carson McCullers' novels a few years ago, in fact, in many ways they were an addiction. Should a reader consecutively read everything of a novelist? Probably not. It's usually better to come back to an author after looking at other scenery. BUT there is something about Clock Without Hands. All of these novels have such a vicious and unshaking realism both in their characterisations and in their plot development. I would be surprised if anyone who enjoyed 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' would not like 'Clock Without Hands', and there is always the ever-present 'loneliness of circumstances' that I'd say is a feature of Carson's. In 'Clock Without Hands', though, things move more slowly, and yet more naturally towards their end. Remember, this book was created through great pain... it had its own slow gestation. Carson couldn't write conventionally for most of its creation (much of the book was typed out with one hand)... she was paralysed down one side and still drinking far too much. And yet, somehow, something wonderful came out of all the pain and the idiocy. A book that I'd judge as her best.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Conflicts and brutality as the Old South slowly dies
26 April 2003
Format:Paperback
Written in 1953, this book explores the racial tensions in a small southern town. The winds of integration are in the air and the Old South is dying. The story is told through several characters. There's a pharmacist dying of leukemia who struggles with the diagnosis. There's a elderly judge who's a former congressman who really believes that the confederate money hoarded in his attic will some day bring him riches. There's the judge's grandson who sees changes coming. And then there's a young blue-eyed Negro who tries to be accepted.
Carson McCullers is a master of setting the stage for this disturbing tale which is certainly not comfortable to read. Each of the characters is exaggerated but that is her intent. She lays out the conflict with surgical precision and creates a world that doesn't exist any more. It's a brutal world and all the sugar coated Southern niceties just don't help. There's violence in the air. I felt it coming throughout and hoped it wouldn't happen. But the conclusion is inevitable.
Fine book. Fine writing. Recommended.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Good...definately good...reads fast and good...
30 Nov 1999
Format:Paperback
Geez...what can I say about this book? Well...I could start by saying that is was an excellent novel. Being 16 years old and all, this book really explained to me how some of the old southerners thought. They still had pride in the "old south" and it fascinated me that the old judge wanted Confederate money to be made redeemable into US dollars. I just could believe it. It portrayed racist, economic, and political issues in a very believable way. It was, all in all, emotional and it really had every emotion contained within it. At times it was funny. At times is was serious. Sometimes it was happy. Sometimes it was sad. It really gets you going once you read the first 10 pages. I liked it very much and do recommend it to everyone -- regardless of age.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
This is my favorite book by Carson McCullers.
28 July 1998
Format:Paperback
Not as well known as "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", this is a beautiful story about small town politics and emotions in the South. McCullers has a talent for describing the dark side of humanity, what drives us and why. Emotions run high in this book where conservative judge, African-American piano player, local pharmacist, and others are connected to one another by unusual ties. It is a difficult book to find, highly recommended.
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