Clock Without Hands

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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  Milan, Georgia · United States

  Small-town Georgia — racial integration
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  Georgia · United States

  Small-town Georgia 1953, on the eve of court-ordered racial integration; McCullers' final novel weaves four lives throug
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