The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter must rank as one of the most impressive of debut novels, all the more remarkable when one considers that it was published when McCullers was only 23.
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, endearing best.Carson McCullers is buried in the same cemetery in Nyack, New York, as the painter Edward Hopper – surely fitting, as they have been well-described as “two of America’s most penetrating mediums of loneliness”. McCullers became an overnight literary sensation, but her novel has endured, just as timely and powerful today as when it was first published. Richard Wright praised Carson McCullers for her ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." She writes "with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming," said the NEW YORK TIMES. Wonderfully attune to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated - and, through Mick Kelly, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer moves into the Kelly house, where Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (and loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music. Each one yearns for escape from small town life. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for all various types of misfits in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940.
With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation.
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