![]() ![]() Years later, McCullers's friend Tennessee Williams wrote that she "owned the heart and the deep understanding of it, but in addition she had that 'tongue of angels' that gave her power to sing of it, to make of it an anthem. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers In this classic novel, the lonely inhabitants of a small Georgia town find companionship with John Singer, who is deaf and mute. Mick's spiritual kinship with John Singer, a deaf mute, and with other social misfits, provides a haunting look into the abyss encountered by human beings in their attempts at love. ![]() Mick Kelly, the adolescent at the center of this strange and brooding novel, is very much the girl McCullers had been in Georgia - passionately musical, and attracted to freaks and outcasts. Singer was out late the night before and that he has a guest staying with him today. But she had read widely in Dostoevsky, Gogol, Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Eugene O'Neill, and her knowledge and insight into her characters transcended her real experience. Mick wakes up early in the morning and sits out on the steps reading the funnies, waiting for John Singer to come out. Carson McCullers was only twenty-three years old, had lived in a small southern town for most of her life, and this was her first novel. ![]() "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" was published in the spring of 1940, and was immediately a literary sensation. ![]()
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