8216She has examined the heart of man with an understanding8230 that no other writer can hope to surpass8217 TENNESSEE WILLIAMSCarson McCullers8217s prodigious ... » 

8216She has examined the heart of man with an understanding8230 that no other writer can hope to surpass8217 TENNESSEE WILLIAMSCarson McCullers8217s prodigious first novel was published to instart acclaim when she was just twentythree. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South it is the story of John Singer a lonely deafmute and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind sympathetic nature. The owner of the cafe where Singer eats every day a young girl desperate to grow up an angry drunkard a frustrated black doctor each pours their heart out of Singer their silent confidant and he in turn changes their disenchanted lived in ways they could never imagine8230Moving sensitive and deeply humane The Heart is a Lonely Hunter explores loneliness the human need for understanding and our search for love. A group of people have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle sympathetic dea «