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| Edition: | Mariner (Paperback) |
| Author: | Carson McCullers |
| Published: | April 2004 |
| Pages: | 368 |
| ISBN 10: | 0618526412 |
| New: | $2.18 (124) |
| Used: | $0.01 (1429) |
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is the debut 1940 novel by American author Carson McCullers. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the U.S. state of Georgia. It created a literary sensation on publication, enjoying a meteoric rise to the top of the bestseller lists in 1940 and was the first in a string of works by McCullers to give voice to the rejected, forgotten, mistreated and oppressed. The novel was chosen as a selection for Oprah's Book Club in 2004.
Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
Plot introduction
The struggles of four of John Singer's primary acquaintances make up the majority of the narrative. They are Mick Kelly, a young girl; Jake Blount, an alcoholic labor agitator; Biff Brannon, a restaurateur; and Dr. Benedict Copeland, an idealistic African-American doctor.
