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marble falls

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4. It's not a long novel, 120(?) or so pages in paperback. Carson McCullers was early twenties ...
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:45 AM
Apr 22

... when she wrote it, and I was about twenty when I read it at college. So it meant more to me at that point.

I thought the movie was good representation of the novel.

I loved Miss Oeschner, my HS AP English teacher, and tearing apart 'Tristam Shandy' and Hardy was more fun than reading it. I was trying to figure out how to put a novel length story-line together. But for some reason 'Heart" didn't need to be disassembled, it was a good, but serious, short read. I found that with the "Awakening" period of American women writers, that I never heard of until collage literature classes, that Carson McCuller was just a later tip of a mountain of good literature.

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