The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a 1940 novel by Carson McCullers that portrays the emotional isolation and inner lives of misfit characters in a small Depression-era Southern town.
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| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968 film) | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
film
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptation |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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surface form:
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968 film)
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| author | Carson McCullers ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | considered a classic of 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| firstNovelOf | Carson McCullers ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
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psychological fiction ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
African American doctor
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adolescent girl ⓘ café owner ⓘ political radical ⓘ |
| hasSettingCharacteristic | small mill town ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
adolescence and coming of age
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political idealism and disillusionment ⓘ poverty in the American South ⓘ religion and spirituality ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Southern literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Biff Brannon
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Dr. Benedict Copeland ⓘ Jake Blount ⓘ John Singer ⓘ Mick Kelly ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early major work by Carson McCullers
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portrayal of misfit characters in a small Southern mill town ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait | John Singer is deaf and mute ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1940 ⓘ |
| publisher | Houghton Mifflin ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Great Depression ⓘ |
| setInRegion |
Southern United States
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American South
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| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
communication and miscommunication
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disability and difference ⓘ isolation ⓘ loneliness ⓘ race relations in the American South ⓘ social injustice ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | derived from a line in a poem by Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) ⓘ |
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968 film)
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968 film)