Ocean State Libraries

A story of black and white in the American South with Berenice Sadie Brown, a black cook who mothers the motherless Frankie Addams, a lonely over-imaginative Georgia girl.

"The previously uncollected writings of Carson McCullers."

Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of the novel by Carson McCullers about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in Georgia.

Feeling rejected when she's not allowed to accompany her brother on his honeymoon, a 12-year-old tomboy decides to run away from home.

"Miss Amelia runs the town's only cafe and controls the locals through the careful distribution of her secretly brewed hooch. Her eccentric existence is threatened with the arrival of a dwarf who claims kinship and the reappearance of her rejected husband." --

"When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl,...

The sad and tragic lives of the Pendertons and the Langdons, two military couples living on an army base in the American South in the 1930s.

A grotesque human triangle in a primitive Southern town ... A young boy learning the difficult lessons of manhood ... A fateful encounter with his native land and former love ... These are parts of the world of Carson McCullers - a world of the lost, the injured, the eternal strangers at life's feast. Here from one of America's superlative writers are brilliant revelations of love and longing, bitter heartbreak and occasional happiness - tales that...