Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: A Novel
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HarperCollins 2011
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Carson McCullers. (2011). Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: A Novel. HarperCollins.

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Carson McCullers. 2011. Heart Is a Lonely Hunter: A Novel. HarperCollins.

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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.


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