A Clock Without Hands (the Mccullers Collected Works)
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About This Novel
The novel begins with pharmacy owner Malone being diagnosed with leukemia and ends with his death. Three characters surround Malone: Judge Fox Crane, a former congressman in his 80s, the judge's grandson, Jester, a 17-year-old high school student, and Sherman, a black youth of the same year. Mr. Malone was diagnosed with leukemia, and since then his life has become a clock without hands; Judge Crane is still obsessed with the glorious history of the past South, and even fantasizes about restoring slavery; the judge's grandson Jester intends to find out the cause of his father's death, and the black orphan Sherman is determined to find his biological mother. This series of stories are intertwined. The novel is framed by the symbolic "clock without hands" and revolves around "death", deriving multiple themes about racial discrimination, growth issues, and intergenerational conflicts. McCullers attempted to combine the personal existential crisis of a dying man with the social crisis of the South stemming from racial conflict.
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