THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER

With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sens ation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is cons idered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute J ohn .