The book begins with a focus on the relationship between two close friends, John Singer and Spiros Antonapoulos, deaf-mutes who have lived together for several years. "Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still, But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill."
The title comes from the poem "The Lonely Hunter" by the Scottish poet William Sharp, who used the pseudonym "Fiona MacLeod". Carpenter wrote in The English Journal that the novel "essentially described the struggle of all these lonely people to come to terms with their world, to become members of their society, to find human love-in short, to become mature." Title Knowles, Jr., author of "Six Bronze Petals and Two Red: Carson McCullers in the Forties," wrote that the book "still seems to capture total sensibility more completely than her other works." Frederic I. It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia.Ī.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers she was 23 at the time of publication.
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