Bibliograph

Clock without hands, Carson McCullers

Type

Label

Clock without hands, Carson McCullers

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Clock without hands

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Carson McCullers

Summary

An "impeccable" novel about race relations and responsibility set in the civil-rights-era South, by the author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (The Atlantic Monthly). 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."

Target audience

adult

Classification