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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is the debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication. 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.


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Carson McCullers photo
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“I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.”

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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Carson McCullers photo
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Carson McCullers photo
Carson McCullers photo
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“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

Variant: The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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Carson McCullers photo
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“I´m a stranger in a strange land.”

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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