The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780679424741)

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time - One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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.

Author: Carson McCullers
ISBN-10: 0679424741
ISBN-13: 9780679424741
Publisher: Modern Library
Language: English
Published: 05/18/1993
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 7.53h x 5.00w x 1.19d

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


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2001 pg. 1838