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ISBN-10: 0060764864
ISBN-13: 9780060764869
Jul 2004
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
Amazingly, Carson McCullers wrote THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER when she was only 23 years old--her first book. It was an immediate success and is widely considered to be her greatest novel. McCullers tells the story of young Mick Kelly, a 12-year-old girl growing up during the Great Depression. Mick is a gifted pianist--as was McCullers--who longs to escape her dreary Georgia town and find a career in music. In her alienation from her surroundings, she finds comfort in befriending a deaf-mute, John Singer, who lives in her family's boarding house. The ironically named Singer is devastated when his only real friend--another deaf-mute--goes mad and is institutionalized. As Mick and several other lonely townspeople tell Singer their troubles, they find in him a refuge from the pain of their isolation, never understanding that Singer himself is slowly giving in to the despair that will kill him. McCullers writes about these lost and melancholy people with deep compassion and a keen awareness of racial and class tensions, but also with appreciation for the universal human need to seek out beauty and decency wherever they can be found.
| Size | | Height: | 5.8 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 11.5 oz |
Industry Reviews
"We have been waiting a long time for a new writer and of this one we must expect a great deal.... [Despite its flaws] the book goes on living in an astonishing way in the mind. Something has been added to our life. It is hard to think that we shall have to wait a year or two before we can expect another book from this extraordinary young woman."
Boston Transcript - May Sarton (06/08/1940)
"Her imagination is rich and fearless; she has an astounding perception of humanity which goes with equal certainty into the daily life...and into the dreams...."
New York Times Book Review - Rose Feld (06/16/1940)
"To me the most impressive aspect of THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is the astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in Southern fiction, to handle Negro characters with as much ease and justice as those of her own race. This cannot be accounted for stylistically or politically; it seems to stem from an attitude toward life which enables Miss McCullers to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness. In the conventional sense, this is not so much a novel as a projected mood, a state of mind poetically objectified in words, an attitude externalized in naturalistic detail."
New Republic - Richard Wright (08/05/1940)
"Coming to THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER as an incipient geezer rather than a panting adolescent, I am less struck by the emotions it stirs, though at times they are powerful, than by its depiction of Southern blacks. The novel was written in the 1930s, a time when almost no Southern whites...were writing sympathetically and knowingly about blacks, and into the bargain McCullers was barely out of her teens, yet she invested her black characters with considerable dignity (as well as the occasional, probably inevitable, stereotype) and in Dr. Copeland she created a man equal or superior to any of the whites he so despises....In a novel that has many remarkable aspects, this is perhaps most remarkable of all."
Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley (06/15/2004)
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