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- Edition:
- Unabridged (HarperAudio)
- Length:
- 12 hours, 28 minutes
- File Size:
- 342 MB (12 files)
- Published:
- July 2004
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Summary
Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her "the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced." Available now for the first time on audio from Caedmon and HarperAudio, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s.
Richard Wright was astonished by McCullers's ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." Hers is a humanity that touches all who come to her work, whether for the first time or, as so many do, time and time again. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, most enduring best.
Performed by Cherry Jones
Quotes from the Critics
"Her imagination is rich and fearless; she has an astounding perception of humanity which goes with equal certainty into the daily life...and into the dreams...." - New York Times Book Review
"To me the most impressive aspect of THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is the astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in Southern fiction, to handle Negro characters with as much ease and justice as those of her own race. This cannot be accounted for stylistically or politically; it seems to stem from an attitude toward life which enables Miss McCullers to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness. In the conventional sense, this is not so much a novel as a projected mood, a state of mind poetically objectified in words, an attitude externalized in naturalistic detail." - New Republic
"We have been waiting a long time for a new writer and of this one we must expect a great deal.... [Despite its flaws] the book goes on living in an astonishing way in the mind. Something has been added to our life. It is hard to think that we shall have to wait a year or two before we can expect another book from this extraordinary young woman." - Boston Transcript
"Coming to THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER as an incipient geezer rather than a panting adolescent, I am less struck by the emotions it stirs, though at times they are powerful, than by its depiction of Southern blacks. The novel was written in the 1930s, a time when almost no Southern whites...were writing sympathetically and knowingly about blacks, and into the bargain McCullers was barely out of her teens, yet she invested her black characters with considerable dignity (as well as the occasional, probably inevitable, stereotype) and in Dr. Copeland she created a man equal or superior to any of the whites he so despises....In a novel that has many remarkable aspects, this is perhaps most remarkable of all." - Washington Post
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