A quiet, sensitive girl searches for beauty in a small, but damned Southern town.

A deaf-mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.

As they each attempt to overcome their loneliness, an adolescent girl, a boisterous reformer, and a Negro patriarch all look to Singer, a deaf mu

When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative w