Carson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Paperback
(Bantam Books March 15, 1968)
, First Bantam Edition edition
Its principal characters are a drunken, bitter radical; a disillusioned Negro doctor; a hard-boiled but complex restaurant owner; a young girl faced with the loss of innocence and the terrible dilemmas of adult life; and the mute man to whom these varied personalities are inexorably drawn.