Reviews for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Review - Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The
Sad and overly cluttered and pointless, although the stories of Mick and some of the minor characters were interesting.
Reviewed by Roger on 2009-11-19 15:30:54
The Heart is a Lonely Hunterby Carson McCullers | |
| List(s): | "Racine Library List" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
| Pages: | 273 |
| Year of Publication: | 1940 |
| Date Added: | 04/29/2009 |
| Date Read: | 11/19/2009 |
| Notes: | Mick is a young girl who dreams of being a musician, but her family is poor and she has to spend her time taking care of her kid brothers. Blount is a communist who thinks that he can accomplish something if he could only get people to listen. Dr. Copeland is a Black physician who sorrows for the state of Blacks in the South. All three of them are drawn to Singer, a deaf/mute. Singer is patient and listens to them for hours, but doesn't know what they want from him or why they come. He, in turn, yearns for his lone friend who has been put in a hospital. When the friend dies, Singer kills himself. Mick drops out of school and gets a job and forgets about music. Blount gets in a fight and has to flee. Dr. Copeland gets sick and has to move away from the people he's trying to help. |
| My Rating: | 5 |