The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
194 Rating(s)
List: $26.99 | Sale: $18.89
Club: $13.49

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Author: Carson McCullers

Narrator: Cherry Jones

Unabridged: 12 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 07/06/2004

Synopsis

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.

About Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock Without Hands. Born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917, she became a promising pianist and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was seventeen, but lacking money for tuition, she never attended classes. Instead she studied writing at Columbia University, which ultimately led to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the novel that made her an overnight literary sensation. On September 29, 1967, at age fifty, she died in Nyack, New York, where she is buried.

About Cherry Jones

Cherry Jones won the Tony® Award for best actress for both The Heiress and Doubt, and received two Tony® nominations for her work in A Moon for the Misbegotten and Our Country's Good; she can be seen in the films The Perfect Storm, Erin Brockovich, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and Cold Mountain.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Amber on 2007-05-07 16:13:20

I typically like this type of fiction, but I have found this book very difficult to get through.

AudiobooksNow review by RENEE on 2008-10-26 14:10:30

Good Grief... BORING. This was awful, the dialogue was terrible,the hokey venacular, the weird fragmented thoughts... I couldn't even get half way thru it and I returned it.

AudiobooksNow review by Wrenna on 2011-03-14 18:05:43

I finished this book only because I have the sometimes unfortunate habit of finishing whatever I start. And probably to consume my suspicions that I was consuming a doughnut hole. A whole lot of pretty much nothing happens that might not have happened in any southern dysfunctional town of the day. And aren't most towns and families and people dysfunctional on some level? In my mind's eye of the artist I am not, I can sum this book up in about five mini-portraits of the most interesting things that happened. The rest was just filler that felt pretty unstructured - I guess, one could argue, like life. I could probably have written a great paper on this in college about the existential disconnect of everyday existence embodied in the main character, magnified by the personal take each satellite character imposes on him, based on their own beef with the world. However, it's not a book I'd recommend anyone pick up for sheer pleasure.

Goodreads review by Paul on December 03, 2008

ROCK AND ROLL It turns out that Miss McCullers did most of her great writing - most of her entire writing - before she was 30. Rock and roll! After 30 she was too busy having ghastly illnesses and marrying the same guy three or four times, and dodging invitations to a suicide pact from the guy she ma......more

Goodreads review by Duffy on June 15, 2011

I may come back and give this four stars, but for now I can't. I first started this book maybe two years ago. I got about 100 pages into it and stopped. I didn't stop because I disliked it. Rather, it seemed at the time a natural result from the inertia and momentum of the book itself. Basically, I w......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielle (Reading Rampage) on October 21, 2021

What a terribly sad book, and yet, so insightful about loneliness, despair and alienation that it’s impossible not to love it, somehow. In a small town in Georgia during WWII, four very different people find solace in talking to Mr. Singer, a deaf and mute man who eats at the New York Café every day.......more

Goodreads review by Arah-Lynda on January 16, 2017

I simply cannot get this book out of my head.    Like most everyone else I am astounded that Carson McCullers was only 23 years old when she wrote this.  Such wisdom and insight from someone so young is truly remarkable.   And there are so many great reviews out there, I just could not stop reading t......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List