Oprah's Book Club: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Hardcover)

from Cecrow

The opposite of love is not hate, not war. The opposite of love is loneliness, and so long as the heart seeks love, companionship and understanding it will be a lonely hunter. This novel is an ode to the lonely, the isolated, the voice-in-the-wilderness. In 1940 Carson McCullers was a 23-year-old...

from kambrogi

I have read this book, published in 1940, twice in the past few decades. It is a stunning novel, even more so when one realizes it was written by a young woman in the starting gate of her 20's. It tells the story of four deeply frustrated characters in a small southern town, each of them fixated ...

from AlisonY

I'm dumbfounded that this book was written by a 23 year old. It seems incomprehensible that someone so young could lay bare the truth of life for what it really is for so many people, peeling back the layers of the human soul like an onion until all that is found at it's centre is labour and love...

from SqueakyChu

It's a bit hard to write about this book. The story takes place in a small town in the U.S. South in which a motley group of people interacted and affected each other's lives. The characters had difficult lives. Two were mutes, one was a heavy drunk, one was a storekeeper who kept his cafe open a...

from ocgreg34

After his large Greek friend is taken away to a hospital, John Singer moves into a boarding house during the Great Depression. A quiet man, also a deaf-mute, the small southern town thinks of him as something special, someone they can pin their fantasies to or talk to and for some reason feel tha...