Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers

5 best books like Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Carson McCullers): Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Wise Blood, Visitation, Evening in Paradise: More Stories, Mary, Who Wrote Frankenstein

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Author

Elizabeth Taylor

On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip. Together, upper lips stiffened,...

Wise Blood

Author	Flannery O'Connor
ISBN	0374530637

Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is a story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher...

Visitation

Author

Jenny Erpenbeck

A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck’s grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialist...

Evening in Paradise: More Stories

Author	Lucia Berlin
ISBN	0374279489

A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin.

In 2015, FSG published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller;...

Mary, Who Wrote Frankenstein

Author	Linda Bailey
ISBN	1770495592

The story of the girl behind one of the most well-known novels -- and monsters -- ever, perfectly timed for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein.

How does a story begin? Sometimes it begins with a dream, and a dreamer. Mary is one such dreamer, a little girl who learns to read...