tahirarani 's review for:

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

2.0

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I waited very patiently for something to happen in this book. It's slow like molasses, like a southern drawl. It is what a writer I once had for a teacher would call low plot, high style. I thought I was going to love this book because so many people do. In fact, one woman stopped to talk with me on the subway about it (I was reading it at the moment) and the way she spoke about it, you would have thought the novel was breathtaking. I also thought I was going to be amazed by the fact that Carson McCullers was only 23 when she wrote it. But while I can appreciate her feat, I am not stunned or astonished by The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. What McCullers wrote is relevant today and it is haunting to a degree, but I never fully connected with the novel, and so my own heart really wasn't in it.