Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
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Overview
When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, Some with sex or drink, and some -- like Mick -- with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.
Reviews (18)
Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Written by Diana on August 24th, 2008
- Book Rating: 0/5
The author uses the spaghetti method of writing. Three disjointed threads you need to get interested in. Then a fourth. And they don't come together until near the end and you don't much understand WHY they're there until then. W-A-A-AY too long and rambling. Author could have said what he did in a much shorter book. Author ties up all loose ends at the end of the book. The narrater does many voices, but Harper-Collins doesn't do audiobooks that well. Recommended read after A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. A Tree is on my A+ list, The Heart is not.
Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Written by Diana on August 24th, 2008
- Book Rating: 0/5
The author uses the spaghetti method of writing. Three disjointed threads you need to get interested in. Then a fourth. And they don't come together until near the end and you don't much understand WHY they're there until then. W-A-A-AY too long and rambling. Author could have said what he did in a much shorter book. Author ties up all loose ends at the end of the book. The narrater does many voices, but Harper-Collins doesn't do audiobooks that well. Recommended read after A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. A Tree is on my A+ list, The Heart is not.
Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Written by Elsie from Hurricane, WV on August 14th, 2008
- Book Rating: 5/5
Cherry Jones does an incredible job reading this profoundly deep book. Great development of characters who are mistreated and misunderstood in a 1930s timeframe. I am amazed Carson McCuller had such insight at the tender age of 23.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Written by Mariah Burton Nelson on January 27th, 2008
- Book Rating: 5/5
Due in part to the FABULOUS interpretation by reader Cherry Jones, this book has become one of my all-time favorites. I was TOTALLY absorbed in the story and the characters, and a week later they live on in my mind and heart. If you have not read this before, or even if you have, but have not heard this reader read it, listen to this tape. Fascinating, poignant story, beautifully told.
A Great Read
Written by Laura from Milwaukee, WI on December 14th, 2007
- Book Rating: 4/5
It was a slow start, but well worth the wait. Very rich characters. The narrator is excellent. The only problem is that I REALLY want to know what happens to Mick in the future!
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Written by Angela Jones on October 26th, 2006
- Book Rating: 5/5
Awesome! A heart wrencing thought provoking novel. I loved the narrator, she was spectacular giving every character their own voice. I felt like I had been transferred back in history. Even thru all the violence and turmoil of the time this novel was writen you could hear the heart and goodness in every perosn.
Yuck!
Written by Anonymous on March 29th, 2006
- Book Rating: 1/5
I stopped at Disk 5...and I still have no idea what this book is even about. I stayed with it that long thinking that it had to get better, but it did not.
Slow starter but wonderful
Written by Christina Espinoza on March 12th, 2006
- Book Rating: 4/5
This story is so real and tragic. I loved it but it took a while. Just like in real life I liked some of the characters and disliked others.
Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Written by Anonymous from Heppner, OR on February 23rd, 2006
- Book Rating: 4/5
Wonderful book - although almost too real. A variety of lonely, searching, people each ascribing unrealistic characteristics the people in their worlds. Misunderstanding each other and demonstrating how each of us can misunderstand others words, actions and intentions.
Not Good
Written by Constance Goodman on December 19th, 2005
- Book Rating: 1/5
I had to give up on this book after disc number 2. Listening to those two discs was a long painful journey. The characters and the reading became mind numbing. It was difficult to follow the plot or get into the characters.