The Heart is a Lonley Hunter Author:Carson McCullers Four people in a small Southern mill town find in a mute an answer to the riddles of their lives: tomboy Mick Kelly, growing up with a genius for music and no oppertunity to express it; Jake Blount, ranting among the half-truths; the disillusioned Negro dreamer, Dr. Copeland; and observing, soft-spoken Biff Brannon. The lives of these four inter... more »waeve; each gropes for a solution to his problems; each feels that an answer, or at least a kind of inner peace, has been found by My. Singer, the mute.« less