The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Book description
The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century.
"A remarkable book...From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the reader."
In a Georgia…
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1 author picked The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Impossible to fathom how Carson McCullers could have distilled such wisdom into her soul by age twenty-three, and then produced this book. The passions and losses, violence and ambition, guilts and loves, of her cast of small-town 1930s Americana characters, wander across the pages like spectres disrupted by a shifting wind.
The lost, struggling to hear each other's songs above their own pain, but continuing to try through the long night, no matter the chance of success.
I first bought a copy of this in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1993, on a day off from working at Cedar Point Amusement Park,…
From John's list on spiritual freedom.
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