The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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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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Extraordinary SF noir. The novel that inspired Tartovsky’s classic 1979 film Stalker and the recent S.T.A.L.K.E.R videogame series from GSC Game World.
In a twist on the more usual First Contact trope, aliens have visited Earth then departed after a short stopover, deeming us irrelevant, too insignificant to bother with. In their wake they have left a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. Perilous, largely toxic, off-limits to humans - among other anomalies, natural laws have been weirdly distorted and human DNA may be altered, with disturbing consequences. Here, it seems, the Visitors have dumped their trash – alien artefacts…
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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