The heart is a lonely hunter
The story of deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for the misfits of a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer is left alone and isolated. He takes a room with the Kelly family where he is visited by the town's misfits, who turn to him for understanding but have no knowledge of his inner life.
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- ISBN: 0618526412
- Physical Description 359 pages.
- Edition 1st Mariner Books ed.
- Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
- Copyright ©1967
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General Note: | Oprah book club selection "A Mariner book". Originally published in 1940. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 16.95 |
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Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century. "A remarkable book...From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the reader." In a Georgia Mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic John Singer, draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a doctor, a widowed café owner, and a young girl. Each yearns for escape from small town life, but the young girl, Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music. Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated--and, through Mick, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.