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Carson McCullers published "The Heart Is A Linly Hunter", which is her best-known book, at the age of twenty-three.
How so young a writer could have captured so rich a cross section of humanity with so rare a combination of compassion and unsentimentality is a mystery.
She takes us on a voyage into the depth of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and she fights the loneliness with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.
This book truly deserves the epithet "☆☆☆☆☆　five-star".　There can be no slightest doubt of that.　

I consider The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as a classic novel. It certainly is a masterpiece. The setting of the story is down south in Georgia. The era is during the Great Depression. This was an era of racial tension especially in the south, but as is often the case in the novel, music proved to be a strong source of solace and passions are stirred to add vigor to the romantic side of things. Even though they lived in a delicate world of their times, the characters live their lives oblivious of the constraints around. The strength of spiritual isolation is strong and mirrors the reality of mankind. The novel portrays the purpose of man in his God-given role on earth. This is a novel that will be enjoyed by generations to come. Just like The Usurper and Other stories, this book carries a deep message.

Also recommended: THE USURPER AND OTHER STORIES , THE UNION MOUJIK, DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE