McCullers's third book - a short novel that follows, in her characteristically Gothic and semi-autobiographical style, a young woman and the tapestry of her family during a hot Georgia summer. McCullers, with some help from Tennessee Williams, adapted her work into a play which opened on Broadway in 1950. Two years later, it was made into a film. Eddie and Dottie are likely New Yorker staff writer Edward Newhouse and his wife, Dorothy DeLay. McCullers met Newhouse at Yaddo in 1941, and was instrumental in the publication of her short story, "The Jockey" that year. A significant association copy. Full pale yellow cloth over boards. Soiling to covers and some rubbing to corners; supplied dust wrapper shows slight chipping and typical fading to spine. Overall a good copy in very good dust wrapper. (Shapiro A3.1.a).