The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers · 1940
Literary Fiction · ranked #194 in category
In a small Georgia mill town, a deaf-mute named John Singer becomes the unlikely confessor to a series of lonely people — a teenage girl, a Black doctor, an itinerant communist, a drunken café owner. McCullers's debut, written when she was twenty-two, is a meditation on isolation, the impossibility of communication and the American South on the eve of WWII.
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