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Set in a small town in the southern United States, and based on the lives of four memorable characters, McCullers returns to the fundamental themes of his work -the loneliness, the complexities and contradictions of our emotions and obsessions, the responsibility for our actions. and its consequences, and identity- and gives us one of the most poignant statements about race, class, and justice, "a story of a man's response and responsibility to his humanity," in the author's words. Clock without Needles, considered his most important novel, closes the circle of a work as short as it is essential of a masterful writer, one of the most monumental literary tributes to the smallness, rigid conventionality and incommunicado of American society of the middle of the twentieth century.