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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 813.52 EAN: 9780060764869 Edition: Unabridged Format: Audiobook, Unabridged ISBN: 0060764864 Label: HarperAudio Manufacturer: HarperAudio Number Of Items: 12 Publication Date: July 06, 2004 Publisher: HarperAudio Release Date: July 06, 2004 Studio: HarperAudio Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Carson McCullers was all of twenty-three when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her "the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced." Available now for the first time on audio from Caedmon and HarperAudio, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s. Richard Wright was astonished by McCullers's ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." Hers is a humanity that touches all who come to her work, whether for the first time or, as so many do, time and time again. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, most enduring best. Performed by Cherry Jones Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A ClassicThis is one really great movie. You won't be sorry that you took the time to watch it. Rating: - GoodDespite good qualities, the novel is not without flaws. The most obvious one is that, despite McCullers' open-minded and liberal sensibilities regarding race, hers is still a viewpoint immured in its time, less of a blacks are equals tone than a pity the poor blacks tone. This is made especially clear with Dr. Copeland, who is portrayed, in some ways, as an intellectual superman of his race, part of the old `Talented Tenth', who is frustrated at how many blacks, especially his children, accept their ... Read More Rating: - Audio Boost for "Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"In rebuttal to Douglas Moran's review on this website, I have to admit I am listening to "Lonely Hunter" on audio cd. I chose it because it's quite a famous book & was pretty sensational in its day (I believe the early 40's). What makes it compelling to me is Cherry Jones's reading. I am Not Southern, therefore am both amused and admiring of her wonderful rendition of all the parts. The dialogue of the poor, blacks and whites, could get tiresome (as it does in "Tom Sawyer), but hearing Jones read the ... Read More Rating: - Dark, depressing, but worthwhileI thought I would be bored listening to an audio book and not pay attention. I listened to this while driving 1200 miles in one weekend. It was the nicest, incredibly long drive I've ever had. The book is a little dark but I was impressed with the writing, especially since Carson McCullers was only 23 when she wrote it. My book club had selected this book and I don't think I would have listened to it otherwise. Although, I like lighter Southern Genre books. Still, having grown up in the South, I thought ... Read More Rating:  - Unremitting Bleakness of LifeI coudn't stop thinking while I was reading this, I couldn't stand more than a hundred pages, that it was a brilliant work for a very sensitive,depressed, lonely, highly intelligenttwenty something writer. Who wasn't made like other folks, and for many artists that's a necessary evil. I havent' read anything else by her, and I don't think I will, I have a feeling life doesn't get better in the works of Carson McCuller and that's too bad. The writing is much better than OK, but,this work is amateurish ... Read More 
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