The Square Root of Wonderful Summary
Carson McCullers

The Square Root of Wonderful Summary

Carson McCullers's The Square Root of Wonderful opened to very poor reviews on Broadway on October 30, 1957. It closed a little over a month later, after only forty-.ve performances. In 1958, an edition of the play was published in the United States and Britain. In this edition, McCullers notes in the "Personal Preface" that, of all the various versions of the play, "the one which follows . . . is the most nearly the truth of what...

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