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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>From the master of Southern Gothic, Carson McCullers's coming-of-age story like no other about a young girl's fascination with her brother's wedding.</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the master of Southern Gothic, Carson McCullers's coming-of-age story like no other about a young girl's fascination with her brother's wedding.<br/><br/></b>Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother's wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her family maid, Berenice, and her six-year-old cousin -- not to mention her own unbridled imagination -- Frankie takes on an overly active role in the wedding, hoping even to go, uninvited, on the honeymoon, so deep is her desire to be a member of something larger, more accepting than herself.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>When one puts [this book] down, it is with . . . a feeling of having been nourished by the truth. --May Sarton <p/>"To me the most impressive aspect of THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER is the astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in Southern fiction, to handle Negro characters with as much ease and justice of those of her own race. This cannot be accounted for stylistically or politically; it seems to stem from an attitude toward life." -- Richard Wright<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including <i>Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, </i>and<i> Clock Without Hands</i>. Her first novel, <i>The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter</i>, made her an overnight literary sensation.

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