Author:Carson McCullers
The Mortgaged Heart is an important collection of Carson McCullers"s work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the the working outline of "The Mute," which became her best-selling novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
The greatest prose writer that the South produced
—— Tennessee WilliamsAgain [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men's hearts and minds
—— New York Herald-TribuneA masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw
—— TimeA tale of frustrated dreams and dreams come true, embodying all the perverse charm of what time, implacably, has swept away ... Don't pass it by
—— El MundoA literary cocktail that mixes adventure, espionage, glamour, aristocracy and passion
—— La VanguardiaA magnificent novel that flawlessly brings together history and intrigue. Sira Quiroga - the seamstress - won't be easily forgotten
—— Juan Gómez-Jurado, author of , The Moses ExpeditionA fun romp
—— Good HousekeepingDevour it
—— Marie ClaireFirst-rate fiction . . . sharp, with great empathy
—— San Francisco Weekly