

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
Author: Carson McCullers
Narrator: Cherry Jones
Unabridged: 12 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 07/06/2004
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.
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.
I typically like this type of fiction, but I have found this book very difficult to get through.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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