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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers (also rec’d by Gloria Steinem , Jarvis Cocker & Julia Roberts )

Her masterpiece. Five starkly drawn characters are united by their connection to a deaf-mute man. The range and variation of the characters and her empathetic handling of each one is remarkable, as well as the odd structure, which may have been drawn from her knowledge of music. Not a typical narrative but probably her most accessible.

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