If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon th… - Carson McCullers

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If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon there is nothing whatsoever to do.

Carson McCullers

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Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes. Most are set in the Deep South.

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