The Heart is a Lonely Author:Carson McCullers The sun woke Mick early...She was different in body...in mind...than she was yesterday. And there was no one to talk to except Mr. Singer, who couldn't speak or hear, only "listen" with his hear. — Here is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers' enduring masterpeice, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter. The setting is a small southern town, the ... more »cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, some with sex or drink, and some-like the strange young girl, Mick Kelly-with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.« less