The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Author: Carson McCullers

Language: English

Publisher: Mariner Books

Dimensions: 5.51 x 0.98 x 8.23 inches

ISBN-10: 618084746

ISBN-13: 978-0618084746

Publication Date: January 1, 1961

Print Length: 368 pages

Description: With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. Centered around the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s, the story explores their yearning for escape from small-town life. When Singer’s mute companion goes insane, he moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly finds solace in her music. This novel, profoundly attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated—most notably through Mick Kelly’s quiet search for beauty. Praised by Richard Wright and lauded by The New York Times, McCullers’ work remains as timely and powerful today as it was first published.