The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Will be published approx. on 29. April 2027
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-241-81486-4 (ISBN)
Description
Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the cafe where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry socialist drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant, and he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways they could never imagine. Moving, sensitive and deeply humane, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter explores loneliness, the human need for understanding and the search for love.
Reviews / Votes
The greatest prose writer that the South produced ... She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass A remarkable book ... [McCullers] writes with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming * The New York Times * Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure Again [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men's hearts and minds * New York Herald-Tribune *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
750 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-81486-4 (9780241814864)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Carson Mccullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
E-Book
04/2012
1st Edition
Penguin Books Ltd
€8.99
Available for download
Carson Mccullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Book
08/2000
Penguin Classics
€14.50
Available immediately
Person
Carson McCullers was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, including The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. McCullers suffered from ill health most of her adult life, including a series of strokes that began when she was in her 20s; she died at the age of 50. The Member of the Wedding was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991).