CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS
by McCullers, Carson
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Middletown, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. Two volumes. Each a stated first edition. One in the presumed first-state dust jacket with photo of McCullers leaning forward (vs. back) on rear panel and rear flap blurbs beginning with Tennessee Williams (closed tear extending from top of cut-out to jacket top edge). The other in presumed variant, or perhaps later-issue jacket with photo of McCullers leaning back on rear panel and rear flap blurbs beginning with Sitwell and with a new line added. Both jackets have four blurbs--by Williams, Sitwell, Pritchett and David Garnett. Both in price-clipped dust jackets with minor wear on corners and spine ends.
Synopsis
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."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quill & Brush (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49957
- Title
- CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS
- Author
- McCullers, Carson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1961
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Quill & Brush
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Middletown, Maryland
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