'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding... that no other writer can hope to surpass' -TENNESSEE WILLIAMSCarson McCullers's prodigious first novel was published to instart acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deafmute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the cafe where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow...

Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.