 First edition | |
| Author | Carson McCullers |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Publication date | 1940 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 356 pp |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia.
A. S. Knowles Jr., author of "Six Bronze Petals and Two Red: Carson McCullers in the Forties", wrote that the book "still seems to capture [the author's] total sensibility more completely than her other works."[1] Frederic I. Carpenter wrote in the English Journal that the novel "essentially [...] described the struggle of all these lonely people to come to terms with their world, to become members of their society, to find human love—in short, to become mature."[2]
- ^ Knowles, A. S. Jr. (1969). "Six Bronze Petals and Two Red: Carson McCullers in the Forties". In French, Warren G. (ed.). The Forties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama. p. 87.
- ^ Carpenter, Frederic I. (September 1957). "The Adolescent in American Fiction". English Journal. 46 (6). National Council of Teachers of English: 313–319. doi:10.2307/808710. JSTOR 808710. - CITED: p. 317