### Review "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 Ne
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
โ Scribed by Carson McCullers
- Publisher
- Distributed Proofreaders Canada
- Year
- 1940
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 218 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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