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  • The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

    Carson Mccullers

    Hardcover (First Edition Library, March 15, 1967)
    McCullers, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Facsimile of the First Edition. Shelton, The First Edition Library, 1967. Octavo. 356 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. The book is housed in its original slipcase. Close to new ! Absolutely Fine condition with an only mildly sunned dustjacket-spine. Includes even the publisher's advertising slip. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the début novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. It is about a deaf man named John Singer who does not speak, and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia. The book begins with a focus on the relationship between two close friends, John Singer and Spiros Antonapoulous. The two are described as deaf-mutes who have lived together for several years. Antonapoulous becomes mentally ill, misbehaves, and despite attempts at intervention from Singer, is eventually put into an insane asylum away from town. Now alone, Singer moves into a new room. The remainder of the narrative centers on the struggles of four of John Singer's acquaintances: Mick Kelly, a tomboyish girl who loves music and dreams of buying a piano; Jake Blount, an alcoholic labor agitator; Biff Brannon, the observant owner of a diner; and Dr. Benedict Mady Copeland, an idealistic black physician. (Wikipedia)
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    Carson McCullers

    Library Binding (Demco Media, March 1, 1996)
    A quiet, sensitive girl searches for beauty in a small, but damned Southern town
  • Heart is a Lonely Hunter

    Carson McCullers

    Hardcover (Random House USA Inc, March 15, 1997)
    "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" was published in the spring of 1940, and was immediately a literary sensation. Carson McCullers was only twenty-three years old, had lived in a small southern town for most of her life, and this was her first novel. But she had read widely in Dostoevsky, Gogol, Chekhov, Tolstoy, and Eugene O'Neill, and her knowledge and insight into her characters transcended her real experience. Mick Kelly, the adolescent at the center of this strange and brooding novel, is very much the girl McCullers had been in Georgia -- passionately musical, and attracted to freaks and outcasts. Mick's spiritual kinship with John Singer, a deaf mute, and with other social misfits, provides a haunting look into the abyss encountered by human beings in their attempts at love. Years later, McCullers's friend Tennessee Williams wrote that she "owned the heart and the deep understanding of it, but in addition she had that 'tongue of angels' that gave her power to sing of it, to make of it an anthem."
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

    Carson McCullers

    Hardcover (Riverside Press reprint, March 15, 2005)
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  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    Carson McCullers

    Unknown Binding (Easton Press, March 15, 2005)
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  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

    Carson McCullers

    Mass Market Paperback (Bantam, March 15, 1970)
    PB
  • Heart is a Lonely Hunter

    Carson McCullers

    Paperback (Bantam Books, March 15, 1974)
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  • Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    Carson McCullers

    Library Binding (Tandem Library, June 15, 1983)
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  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    Carson McCullers

    Hardcover (Isis Large Print Books, July 1, 1988)
    Book by McCullers, Carson
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

    Carson McCullers

    Hardcover (The Cresset Press, March 15, 1954)
    Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Readers Union Edition, 1954. 288pp. Good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, small discreet ownership inscription to front free endpaper. In gilt lettereed turquoise cloth gently rubbed and browned to spine not detracting. Twenty three years old at the time of writing, Carson McCullers caused a literary sensation with this Southern Gothic work, in the vein of Steinbeck and Harper Lee.
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Bantam Classic SC102

    Carson McCullers

    Mass Market Paperback (Bantam Books, March 15, 1961)
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  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

    Carson McCullers

    Mass Market Paperback (Penguin Books, March 15, 1946)
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