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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 Caf�, 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 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's life, read virtually everything written by or about her, and interviewed hundreds of McCullers's relatives, friends, and enemies. The result is an enduring, distinguished portrait of a brilliant, but deeply troubled, writer.
- Sales Rank: #690914 in Books
- Published on: 1975-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 600 pages
Review
Sensitive, balanced, authoritative . . . A work of prodigious research and unblinking honesty―the kind of biography that leaves the reader replete with the sense of having vicariously experienced a life as it was lived.
(New York Times)Fascinating . . . From the pages of The Lonely Hunter emerges the essential spirit of a consequential and controversial American writer.
(New York Times Book Review)Carr's biography is full, sympathetic, and frank. She knows Carson McCullers's life and work inside out.
(Newsweek)Likely to become the definitive biography of McCullers
(Library Journal)Admirable . . . Offers the best picture we are likely to get of an almost incomprehensibly neurotic personality.
(New Yorker) About the Author
Virginia Spencer Carr holds the John B. and Elena Diaz-Verson Amos Distinguished Chair in English at Georgia State University. Her books include "Understanding Carson McCullers," "Dos Passos: A Life," and a biography of Paul Bowles.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Well-researched, scholarly bio worthy of McCullers.
By terry anzaldi
A biography worthy of one of America's unsung literary heroes. McCullers insight into the human condition and her flawless skill at structure and composition belies her second class stature among the great literary artists of mid-century America. This work brings that genius to the foreground. If you are interested in a thorouhly researched, scholarly portrait of McCullers life and work, this bio is a must read.
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers--A Study in Trivial Pursuits
By T. M. Johnson
Out of respect for the work ethic, add an extra half star to this review. Of the many biographies I have read, Virginia Spencer Carr's "The Lonely Hunter" is by far the most torturous. As I slogged through 537 pages chronicling the life and times of this talented but complex personality, I couldn't help but think of the young schoolboy who when his teacher observed he showed an interest in sharks, brought him a book on that subject. Later she asked her student if he had learned much about sharks. The boy replied, "Yes, more than I wanted to know." One certainly can't accuse Ms. Carr of not doing her research (21 pages of source citations) in McCullers' biography. It's as if she needs to account for every hour of her subject's life. Like Carson's omnipresent thermos of hot tea and sherry, we are asked to sip every detail of her life to the very last drop.
I read "The Lonely Hunter" to learn more about a young woman who at the age of twenty-three wrote the wonderful novel "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." I was intrigued by how Carson, at such a young age, could write that poignant story with a skill and wisdom that comes only with practice and life experience. In this regard Carr delivers. She explains McCullers' fascination with "fringe" people, those human beings who because of physical, mental or social defects walk the darker paths of humankind. Thus the deaf mute John Singer in "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." Carson's "we of me" concept, a sort of psychic menage a trois, many of which involved McCullers herself during her life, translates to similar relationships between the pages of her books.The young girl Mick Kelly in Carson's novel has her "inner room," where she keeps her dreams, her goals, her love of music, an expression of McCuller's own talent for and devotion to music. Carr relates, too, how her subject's thesis that an antagonism forms in "lover/beloved" realtionships manifests itself in Carson's stories. I was disappointed Carr did not reveal more about McCullers' austere writing style, her masterful use of the simple declarative sentence. And though the biographer cites the many books and authors Carson read, she makes no connection between these and McCullers' craft.
Carson McCullers was a complex human being as Spenser Carr so well reveals, a daughter fussed over and smothered by an adoring mother to the point Carson became a lifelong egocentric, a person to be suffered by her friends (though willingly by most), needy to the point of being parasitic. I found Carson's abandonment of her suicidal husband Reeves (she married him twice) indefensible. But as is often the case with many artists, they are ennobled only by their art.
Like her fellow Georgian and contemporary Flannery O'Connor (they lived only 130 miles apart, even were granted extended stays at the artists' colony Yaddo, but never met--strange...), Carson experienced health issues for much of her adult life (O'Connor died of lupus at the age of 39; McCullers age 50). And thanks to Spenser Carr the reader must endure it too; every trip to the hospital, every illness, every bout with the flu, nearly every runny nose, we are present at her bedside. McCullers' pregnancy and abortion, though, receives a scant paragraph and a half. (Given Carson's liberal attitudes toward sex, whether the father was husband Reeves or one of the many men in her life, the author never says.) Furthermore,an abortion would seem to be a major life event to an adult woman. But only a paragraph and a half??
Other readers might appreciate Carr's thorough research and meticulous attention to detail, but after the first few chapters the book to me became a drone of minutiae: like panning gold, I had to sift a great deal of sand before I came to the precious flecks. As I turned the final page, I found myself thinking much the same as the boy and his sharks--I learned much more about Carson McCullers than I needed--or wanted--to know.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
If You like Biographies, If You love Carson McCullers
By Bookish
I read biographies of artists...mostly writers. This is a dense book, full of detail, covering McCullers' entire life. If you prefer memoirs written in the genre "creative non-fiction," then you probably won't be drawn into this book. But if you have read a lot of biographies, as I have, and are used to the non-active and somewhat dry academic narratives that are found in these types of books, and are interested in the life that brought about McCuller's timeless work, you will find this biography to be one of the best. It is respectful, and also fascinating to those of us who consider McCullers to have been a literary and artistic genius.
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