- American fiction (fictional works by one author), Friendship, fiction, Georgia, fiction, Fiction
Set in 1930s Georgia, the novel centers around a deaf and mute man, John Singer. Singer has been devastated by the loss of his dear friend, Antonapoulos, who was committed to an asylum for bad behavior
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Carson McCullers
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- De Arbeiderspers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers, Houghton Mifflin Company
- Editions
- 64
- Language
- Chinese, German, Dutch, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9789574504343
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“IN THE town there were two mutes, and they were always together.”
Carson McCullers was an American writer. She wrote novels, short stories, and two plays, as well as essays and some poetry. Her first novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts of the South. Her other novels have similar themes and are all set in the South. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_McCullers
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