The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
First edition | |
| Author | Carson McCullers |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Southern Gothic |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Publication date | 1940 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 356 pp |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the debut novel of American author Carson McCullers, who was 23 at the time of publication. It is a Southern Gothic novel about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the U.S. state of Georgia.
The novel was received positively both as a realist commentary on social conflict and as a parable about fascism.