Finally done with The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and whoa, gotta think this one through a bit more. I love the whole "Have to face the new day" ending, and Biff's POV was the best to end with. But how did McCullers come up with this at 23? In the 1940s with Civil Rights barely beginning to boil? The s...
A good book and well written. It is about loneliness and lost people trying to reach out in an unjust world and for the most part failing.There is a stillness to it and a loneliness. The characters are very well drawn. The prose is blunt and direct but compelling.
Oh, what a novel. Really this is about as perfect as they come. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter has that blend of story, character, setting, lyricism, insight, pacing, and so forth and so on that makes a wonderful read. Throw all that under a title like The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and what more could...
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is only partly a coming-of-age novel. There are several threads of the story, following the five main characters of the book, all interesting people, with a deep inner world. One would think they could cure their loneliness once they get to know each other, but things ar...
I think McCullers takes a contested third place to Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty in her spiritual treatment of the grotesque. She's got shooting, drunkards, tragic co-dependency and a Greek deaf-mute who likes food and Mickey Mouse. I loved reading this and followed Copeland's and Mick Kelly'...
it takes a while before you understand Truman Capote's assessment, 'Carson McCullers, so skillful, died so tragically young'. McCullers, who was a child prodigy musician, and then was fairly unproductive artistically speaking, then began to bring out literary masterworks in her late thirties/forties...
My Summary:Despair--Dreams of hope--No justice--Things never change.Explanation of my summary:The story takes place in the American South among the poor underclass in the late 1930s. The social, economic and racial realities of this setting are oppressive to any human hope for a better life. I summa...
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