... of her career. One could hazard that the richly talented and diversely gifted McCullers might finally have become a genius of the stature of George Eliot or Jane Austin or Eudora Wharton. Her achievement is substantial and undeniable, but as in the case of her Southern contemporary Flannery O"Connor, we are continually haunted by the sense of what might have been had ... ...

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