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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).
内容简介
In this thoughtful and moving novel, four men find themselves
inextricably bound together by their past histories. The aged Judge
Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while his grandson,
Jester, is involuntarily drawn to Sherman, a volatile black orphan
who feels the sharp sting of racial injustice, especially when he
finds out the truth about his parentage. Through the eyes of these
individuals Carson McCullers explores the roots of racial prejudice
and the dual moralities of the town's leading whites.