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Title: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) by Carson McCullers ISBN: 0-618-52641-2 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 21 April, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant, Classic -- Read It Today!
Comment: Thank you, Oprah! I read this book as a college freshman in 1976 and still remember its startlingly honest, quietly devestating portrait of five women from a small Southern town and how, despite their individual loneliness, they fail to connect. Written when McCullers was only 23, it was the emotional and intellectual touchstone for all her other works. Still a pleasure to read and new generations of women will be mezmerized. My other two favorite recent books: "I Sleep At Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets," by Bruce Stockler, an amazingly funny and fresh memoir about marriage, manhoood, love, career, parenting and juggling. And "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books," by Azar Nafisi, an immensely moving portrait of the power of words and books in a closed society (and how we take books for granted).
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant
Comment: I bought this book in first edition when I worked at Houghton Mifflin 25 years ago because I totally fell in love with it. The characters are as rich as any who have ever been imagined, and the story is just breathtaking. I hope the new-found success of this book will also drag along Carson McCullers' other masterpiece, "The Member of the Wedding," which has had such an impact in my own life.
Rating: 4
Summary: young person's depressing portrait of the rural South
Comment: I like to discover gifted authors who challenge me with their work to see interesting characters and things I might not encounter in my day-to-day life. As a city person, I enjoyed learning about her setting and people. This is not a happy story, but what's great about Carson McCullers is how she portrays those who are considered low or worthless and makes us feel compassion and understanding for them. I think there's a lot of Mick in all of us , and a need to escape from our own social isolation, into a world of inner spiritual fulfillment, whether it's some hobby or interest or something else. Another great novel about social isolation and finding escape and relief in depravity is the now-forgotten but intriguing "Bedeviled" by Thomas Cullinan, or the odd and shocking but incredibly gripping debut "A Young Girl's Crimes" by another rather very young author David Rehak. I highly recommend it!!!
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060740450 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 20 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0142004235 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 18 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor ISBN: 0618344586 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060929790 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Amateur Marriage: A Novel by ANNE TYLER ISBN: 1400042070 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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