The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers
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When she was only twenty-three this, Carson McCullers first novel, created a literary sensation. She is very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjuers 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 McCuller'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.
Genres: FictionClassicsBook ClubLiteratureHistorical FictionNovelsSouthern GothicLiterary FictionAmericanSouthern
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