The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers • 1940
Devastation Rating
grief loss literary fiction
Our Take
Everyone in this novel is speaking into a void, and McCullers makes the void feel warm. Singer listens to everyone and loves one person who cannot hear him, and the circularity of that longing is the loneliest structure in fiction. A novel about connection so defeated it becomes a meditation on its impossibility.
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