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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers
Narrated by: Cherry Jones
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The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century.

“A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the reader.”

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.

Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated—and, through Mick, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.

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I loved this and will listen again. A story about the human condition, class, race, politics wrapped in a perfect tale of individual lives.

Brilliant story, brilliantly told

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McCullers' captivating and curious novel is read by Cherry Jones with a brilliant sense of Southern melancholy.

Splendid all round

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what can I tell anyone about this book that hasent already been said a thousand times.
I can only tell you what it made me fell and think .it made me sad and joyful, horrafied and elated. the truly sad fact is this could be written about today's America nothing has seemed to have changed ,everyone's connected but everybody feels alone....

what do you say about a masterpiece?

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I can't say I enjoyed this audio and at times it just became my background noise without feeling I was missing much.

long and boring

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