But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

After World War II Carson lived mostly in Paris. Lawrence with an original poetic sensibility. Works


Novels
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941)
The Member of the Wedding (1946)
Clock Without Hands (1961)


Other works
The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951) a short story collection comprising:
a novella of the same title later made into a Merchant Ivory film
"Wunderkind" – (Story 1936)
"The Jockey" – (The New Yorker 1941)
"Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland" – (The New Yorker 1941)
"The Sojourner" – (Mademoiselle 1950)
"A Domestic Dilemma" – (New York Post magazine section September 16 1951)
"A Tree a Rock a Cloud" – (Harper's Bazaar 1942)

The Square Root of Wonderful (1958) a play
Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig (1964) a collection of poems
The Mortgaged Heart (1972) a posthumous collection of writings edited by her sister Rita
Illumination and Night Glare (1999) her unfiniCarson McCullersd autobiography publiCarson McCullersd more than 30 years after her death


Collections
Complete Novels Carlos L.

S. Her first novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts of the U.