In a Georgia Mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic John Singer draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a doctor, a widowed café owner, and a young girl. Each yearns for escape from small town life, but the young girl, Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music.
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The dust jacket is rubbed, sunned, edge worn, has a pair of tape tabs, stained at the rear, and has been backed in brown paper. A still serviceable example of a rather uncommon high spot of Southern Gothic literature and 20th century literature as a whole.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers; Paperback 46th Printing May 1978.
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Now alone, Singer moves into a new room. The remainder of the narrative centers on the struggles of four of John Singer's acquaintances: Mick Kelly, a tomboy who loves music and dreams of buying a piano; Jake Blount, an alcoholic labor agitator; Biff Brannon, the observant owner of a diner; and Dr. Benedict Mady Copeland, an idealistic physician.
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Carson McCullers was only twenty-three years old, had lived in a small southern town for most of her life, and this was her first novel. But she had read widely in Dostoevsky, Gogol, Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Eugene O'Neill, and her knowledge and insight into her characters transcended her real experience.
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