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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library)

by Carson Mccullers

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When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, Some with sex or drink, and some — like Mick — with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in the spring of 1940, and was immediately a literary sensation. Carson McCullers was only twenty-three years old, had lived in a small southern town for most of her life, and this was her first novel. But she had read widely in Dostoevsky, Gogol, Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Eugene O'Neill, and her knowledge and insight into her characters transcended her real experience. Mick Kelly, the adolescent at the center of this strange and brooding novel, is very much the girl McCullers had been in Georgia - passionately musical, and attracted to freaks and outcasts. Mick's spiritual kinship with John Singer, a deaf mute, and with other social misfits, provides a haunting look into the abyss encountered by human beings in their attempts at love. Years later, McCullers's friend Tennessee Williams wrote that she "owned the heart and the deep understanding of it, but in addition she had that 'tongue of angels' that gave her power to sing of it, to make of it an anthem".
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this is my favorite fiction book of all time. mccullers expertly (compassionately?) weaves together the lives of seemingly disparate characters. the ending is incredible!
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9780679424741
Author:
McCullers, Carson
Publisher:
Modern Library
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McCullers, Carson
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Fiction
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Friendship
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Social life and customs
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Classics
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American fiction (fictional works by one author)
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Racism
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Southern states
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Deaf
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Psychological fiction
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Teenage girls
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Suicide victims
Subject:
Southern States Social life and customs Fiction.
Subject:
Teenage girls -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Subject:
Bildungsromane.
Subject:
Deaf -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Edition Description:
Hardcover
Series:
Modern Library (Hardcover)
Series Volume:
12
Publication Date:
May 1993
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Hardcover
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English
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Yes
Pages:
448
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753x500x119 92
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