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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

Start date: March 1, 2016

Finish date: May 31, 2016

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Mar 26, 2012 Connie G rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club, historical-fiction, southern-lit, classic, georgia

This story is set in a small town in Georgia in the 1930s. John Singer, who is deaf and mute, has lost his friend and roommate when Antonapoulos gets sent to an asylum. Singer, who reads lips, meets some lonely people at a local pub and at a roominghouse. He becomes the confidant of four troubled people and social reformers who tell him their hopes and dreams. Since these conversations are almost one-sided, in the troubled person's mind, the kind Singer is thought of as the one person who unders ...more

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Oct 24, 2014 GONZA rated it liked it

Beautiful and deep book,written in a relatively smooth way and impressive considering that the author was very young when she wrote it. Life in America's deep south just before the Second World War through the eyes of some unforgettable characters such as Singer, the deaf-mute, and Mike the girls who loved music and growing up.

Libro bello e profondo, scritto in modo relativamente scorrevole e impressionante se si pensa che l'autrice era molto giovane quando l'ha scritto. La vita nell'america del ...more

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