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Clock Without Hands (novel)Clock Without Hands is American author Carson McCullers' final novel. It was published on September 18, 1961 by Houghton Mifflin.

Plot
Set in small-town Georgia in 1953 on the eve of court-ordered racial integration, four men consider their lives:

39-year-old pharmacist J. T. Malone discovers that he has leukemia and has only months to live.
Judge Clane, the town's leading citizen and former congressman town, longs for the old ways of the South, but also mourns the loss of his wife
and son, the latter who committed suicide.

Sherman Pew is a talented black foundling (left on a pew) with blue eyes, who is employed by the Judge Clane to be his amenuensis.
Jester is Judge Clane's grandson and is learning to fly and studying law. Jester is strangely drawn to Sherman but is growing to despise his
grandfather's beliefs.

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