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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

368 pages

About this book

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.

Themes
Am I Alone?Dark & BroodingHeartbreakingMelancholic & NostalgicQuietly DevastatingThe illusion of being understoodThe silence of human isolationYearning for transcendent escape
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