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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Audio Book
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Author:
Carson McCullers
Reader: Cherry Jones
This Oprah pick focuses on the heartbreak of the human condition. Even though we're surrounded, human warmth is hard to find. An unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected and forgotten. Audie Award finalist. "Jones' impeccable reading brings the characters' secret longings to life... [She] vividly captures the characters' loneliness and hunger."—Booklist
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Available Audio Book Editions:
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UNABRIDGED |
Audio CDs ( 12 ) |
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Publish Date: 07/06/2004
ISBN: 9780060764869
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Synopsis:
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Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her "the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced." Available now for the first time on audio from Caedmon and HarperAudio, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s. Richard Wright was astonished by McCullers's ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." Hers is a humanity that touches all who come to her work, whether for the first time or, as so many do, time and time again. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, most enduring best. Performed by Cherry Jones
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Book Reviews:
| "We have been waiting a long time for a new writer and of this one we must expect a great deal.... [Despite its flaws] the book goes on living in an astonishing way in the mind. Something has been added to our life. It is hard to think that we shall have to wait a year or two before we can expect another book from this extraordinary young woman." |
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Author Bio:
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Lula Carson Smith was born in Columbus, Georgia. She began to write at 16; her father, sensing her talent, bought her a typewriter after she wrote her first work, a play "thick with incest, lunacy, and murder." Also a musical prodigy, she was sent at age 18 to New York City to study at Juilliard. Once there, however, McCullers did not attend classes, but went to Columbia and NYU at night and worked at various clerical jobs during the day. Her first novel was published when she was 23, and three years later she received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. At 19, she married Reeves McCullers, a bisexual, alcoholic fellow Southerner and writer from an unstable family. They had a tumultuous marriage, eventually divorced, and then remarried; he committed suicide in 1953--trying unsuccessfully to persuade his wife to die with him. McCullers's own alcoholism intensified after his death. After World War II, McCullers lived mostly in Paris, where among her close friends were Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams. When she was 50, she suffered a stroke and died after being in a coma for 47 days. McCullers wrote autobiographical fiction, and her major themes are psychological and spiritual alienation.
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