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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers · 1940 · 320 pages

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the debut novel of American author Carson McCullers, who was 23 at the time of publication. It is a Southern Gothic novel about a mute man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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