Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by McCullers, Carson
ISBN: 9780618526413
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With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (and 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 Kelly, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.

Richard Wright praised Carson McCullers for her ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." She writes "with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming," said the New York Times. McCullers became an overnight literary sensation, but her novel has endured, just as timely and powerful today as when it was first published. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, endearing best.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: McCullers, Carson
  • ISBN: 9780618526413
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.90 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 368
  • Publication Year: 2004

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  • Both hard to recommend and impossible to forget.

    Hunter S. - 3 years 4 months ago

    These days, when so much of the television, movies, and books we consume are meant purely for entertainment, it's hard to recommend something to a friend that isn't the page-turner or edge-of-your-seat thriller that we've all come to expect. However, there are seasons where a look deep into the fibers of human relationships that exposes truly sad moments of real emotion is exactly what we need. Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is that kind of novel. The story centers on the deaf-mute John Singer and the small southern town where he acts as a hub for the relationships of a diverse group of the town's citizens. McCullers focuses on the internal lives of each of the five main characters, exposing the depth of personality in each and giving shape to their individual battles as they draw closer to Singer, the only person that, in his silence and solitude, seems to truly relate to each of their lives. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is not a novel of entertainment. It is not a novel for everybody, or even for every season of a person's life. It is sad and full of lonely people, but it is also a novel of understanding and the true familial love that is created in the darkest times.

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