Richard Wright, reviewing the novel in 1940, wrote: No writer in the past twenty years has stated America’s racial dilemma so simply and dramatically. In a sense The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was ahead of its time.
(From the 1940 edition, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston) Their appeal to Singer is the appeal of all humanity to a silent, cryptic universe. Copeland, the African-American patriarch. The characters move around Singer, a man of mystical understanding, in an intricate dance of hope and despair: Mick, and adolescent ardently longing to express herself in music Jake Blount, a wild, blundering reformer Dr. The people who we come to know in the book all, in some odd way, seek some answer to their confused desires from to extract from Singer, a deaf mute. Through its unforgettable characters, the story delves into their struggle to build bridges between their separate islands of loneliness. The novel was acclaimed as the work of a prodigy by critics and fellow writers. Carson McCullers was only twenty-three when The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, but her insights into human nature demonstrated wisdom beyond her years.
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