![]() ![]() He is a great admirer of Karl Marx and wants to apply his theories to the African-American community. Benedict Copeland is a rare African-American doctor. Blount gets a job in a fairground and appears to be a left-wing agitator. ![]() Buff Bannon runs a cafe and when Jake Blount first appears in the town, he goes on a drinking binge there. The novel is set in a down-at-heel town somewhere in the Deep South, which is never named, and focuses on four disparate characters who gravitate towards a deaf-mute man called John Singer. It was a runaway success and remains her most enduring work, although she continued to publish novels, plays and short stories. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was her first novel, published when she was just 23. The author was born Lula Carson Smith in Georgia in 1917. McCullers is often associated with Southern Gothic, along with authors like Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner and Harper Lee. One new book has been added to the programme limitatif for LLCER anglais: Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940). ![]()
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