' She has examined the heart of man with an understanding. A powerful exploration of alienation and loneliness in 1930s America, published in Penguin Modern Classics. Moving, sensitive and deeply humane, The Heart is a Lonely HunterĮxplores loneliness, the human need for understanding and the search for love. 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 the could never imagine. 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. Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. The Lonely Hunter challenged everything I assumed about the nature of loneliness and what it means to lead an authentic life.Doree Shafrir, author of Thanks for Waiting and Startup: A Novel ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Cosmopolitan One evening, thirtysomething writer Aimée Lutkin found herself at a dinner party surrounded by.
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