The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

1940 • 368 pages

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“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”

In a Georgia Mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic John Singer, draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a doctor, a widowed café owner, and a young girl. Each yearns for escape from small town life, but the young girl, Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music.


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I think it was the wrong book, or maybe the wrong time. But after 150 pages I'm out.

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annotated... 2001.

June 16, 2013

Magnet for weirdos
following around, yapping
no one cares to ask.

September 11, 2022

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