My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers

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My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers
Jenn Shapland, Jenn Shapland
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My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers

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How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered—an icon and idol—alongside your own? Jenn Shapland’s celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America’s most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memory, obsession, and love.

Shapland is a graduate student when she first uncovers letters written to Carson McCullers by a woman named Annemarie. Though Shapland recognizes herself in the letters, which are intimate and unabashed in their feelings, she does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. Her curiosity gives way to fixation, not just with this newly discovered side of McCullers’s life, but with how we tell queer love stories. Why, Shapland asks, are the stories of women paved over by others’ narratives? What happens when constant revision is required of queer women trying to navigate and self-actualize in straight spaces? And what might the tracing of McCullers’s life—her history, her secrets, her legacy—reveal to Shapland about herself?

In smart, illuminating prose, Shapland interweaves her own story with McCullers’s to create a vital new portrait of one of our nation’s greatest literary treasures, and shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are.

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Cover of: My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers
My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers
2022, Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Virago
in English
Cover of: My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers
My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers
2021, Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Virago
in English
Cover of: My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers
My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers
2021, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
Cover of: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
2021, Tin House Books, LLC
in English
Cover of: My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers
My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers: A Memoir
2020, Tin House Books, LLC
in English
Cover of: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
Mar 10, 2020, Brilliance Audio
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Cover of: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
2020, Tin House Books, LLC, Tin House Books
in English

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HQ75.4.S53A3 2021

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Pagination
288
Weight
0.360

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OL34708247M
ISBN 13
9780349015675

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