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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia.
A classic novel about a deaf-mute who becomes a confidant to a group of lonely people in a small Southern town. Learn more about the author, the book, and the film adaptations on Goodreads.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, novel by Carson McCullers, published in 1940. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its sensitive glimpses into the inner lives of lonely people, it is considered McCullers’s finest work.
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Jake Blount meets the man who wrote the quote from the Bible on the brick wall; the man's name is Simms, and he preaches on the sidewalks. Simms starts coming to preach at the carnival where Jake works, and Jake occasionally makes fun of him.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was widely hailed at the time of its publication as one of the first novels by a white writer to try to fully, empathetically inhabit and detail the lives of black individuals rather than portray them as ciphers or stereotypes.
The owner of the café where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry socialist drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant, and he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways the could never imagine.
Jan 25, 2011 · Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and...
