"When one puts this book down, it is with a feeling of having been nourished by the truth." --May Sarton“To me the most impressive aspect of THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is the astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in Southern fiction, to handle N
- Title : The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
- Author : Carson McCullers
- Rating : 4.89 (184 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-2-22
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 448 Pages
- Asin : 0679424741
- Language : English
"When one puts this book down, it is with a feeling of having been nourished by the truth." --May Sarton“To me the most impressive aspect of THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is the astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in Southern fiction, to handle Negro characters with as much ease and justice of those of her own race. --Richard Wright. This cannot be accounted for stylistically or politically; it seems to stem from an attitude toward life
The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, some with sex or drink, and some—like Mick—with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeWhen she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensationThis is a sweet, wonderful book for reading with an older toddler or preschooler, especially at the end of a day that may have been filled with struggles. Horace’s famous “Carpe diem!” is quoted in the correct Latin plural command form “Carpite Diem,” when the nervous chickens desperately exhort the lazy pigs (who would as soon snooze and snore the whole day away) to make productive use of the day.Well-known children’s book illustrator Sarah Boynton contributed caricature-like, but appealing, renditions of pigs, chickens, cows, ducks, and sheep, and the singing voices on the accompanying CD are well chosen, even professional.While often using the form of parody, the resulting product is never irreverent or offensive—at worst, there may be a slight critique of New Age mindless use of Gregorian chant as background for relaxation exercises.. Both survivor's and caretakers are likely to resonate with Surviving with Heart in terms of being understood and that others have walked their journey.Very practical suggestions are
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