The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely HunterSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time When she was only twenty three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures 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

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures 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 McCullers'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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 05/18/1993
ISBN: 9780679424741
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 7.53h x 5.00w x 1.19d

Review Citations: Booklist 06/01/2001 pg. 1838

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 740 / Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Reading Level: 6.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 19