A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud (Creative Short Stories Series) [Hardcover]

Carson McCullers (Author)

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Publication Date: February 1989 | ISBN-10: 0886823498 | ISBN-13: 978-0886823498

A transient stops at an all-night cafe and explains to the owner and a paperboy how the science of love helped him to recover after his wife left him.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 31 pages
• Publisher: Creative Co (Sd) (February 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0886823498
• ISBN-13: 978-0886823498
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,123,415 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock Without Hands. Born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917, she became a promising pianist and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was seventeen, but lacking money for tuition, she never attended classes. Instead she studied writing at Columbia University, which ultimately led to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the novel that made her an overnight literary sensation. On September 29, 1967, at age fifty, she died in Nyack, New York, where she is buried.

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5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful writing, January 12, 2008

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Like Steinbeck's The Red Pony, this is a short statement about love, a statement made all the more powerful because it is framed in a humble setting, with humble characters.

An old man in a bar explains, through the trials and tribulations of his life story, that the discipline of love should be nurtured gently and systematically, selecting as its object the most simple of the world's offerings and gradually shifting to the more complex before moving on to romance between a man and a woman.