The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

£1,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The author’s first novel, set in the South, follows the lives of five towns-people who interact with a deaf mute named John Singer. The novel received immediate critical acclaim, and catapulted McCullers into fame at the age of 23. A very good copy, extremities of jacket a little rubbed and nicked, spine lightly faded,

• Year: 1940

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