- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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name = The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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image_caption = Cover of a recent reprint edition
author =Carson McCullers
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country =United States
language = English
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publisher =Houghton Mifflin
release_date =1940
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media_type = Print (Hardcover )
pages = 356 pp
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followed_by ="The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" is the debut 1940 novel by American author
Carson McCullers . It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in theU.S. state of Georgia. It created a literary sensation on publication, enjoying a meteoric rise to the top of the bestseller lists in 1940 and was the first in a string of works by McCullers to give voice to the rejected, forgotten, mistreated and oppressed. The novel was chosen as a selection forOprah's Book Club in 2004.Time Magazine included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". [http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/]Plot introduction
The struggles of four of John Singer's primary acquaintances make up the majority of the narrative. They are Mick Kelly, a young girl; Jake Blount, an alcoholic labor agitator; Biff Brannon, a restaurateur; and Dr. Benedict Copeland, an idealistic
African-American doctor.Film adaptation
Play adaptation
A stage adaptation of "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" premiered on
March 30 ,2005 at TheAlliance Theater inAtlanta, Georgia . The show ran untilApril 24 of that year, and then toured. The play was anAlliance Theater presentation done in association withThe Acting Company out ofNew York . The play was in two acts adapted from the novel byRebecca Gilman and directed by Doug Hughes. [Heart Tour Program: The Acting Company www.theactingcompany.org] ["Variety" http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117926738.html?categoryid=33&cs=1]References
External links
* [http://www.carson-mccullers.com/html/wright.html] Review
* [http://www.carson-mccullers.com/html/hunter.html] The Carson McCullers project
* [http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/thlh/novel/thlh_novel_main.jhtml] What the Oprah book club had to say
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