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Title Statement | The heart is a lonely hunter / Carson McCullers. |
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Series | Oprah's book club |
Author | McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 |
Publication | Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, c1967. |
Edition | 1st Mariner Books ed. |
Extent of Item | 359 p. |
ISBN | 0618526412 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 1400445 |
General Notes | "A Mariner book". Originally published in 1940. |
Summary | The story of deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for the misfits of a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer is left alone and isolated. He takes a room with the Kelly family where he is visited by the town's misfits, who turn to him for understanding but have no knowledge of his inner life. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Teenage girls--Fiction |
Suicide victims--Fiction | |
Racism--Fiction | |
Deaf--Fiction | |
By Location | Southern States--Fiction |
By Genre | Psychological fiction |
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