{"product_id":"9780820325224","title":"The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as \u003ci\u003eReflections in a Golden Eye\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of the Sad Café\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom McCullers's birth in Columbus, Georgia, in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo 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.","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42869620834365,"sku":"9780820325224","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780820325224_p0.jpg?v=1771583113","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780820325224","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}