This is the story of Singers the mute, who lives a solitary life in a small town in the American South. And it's the story of the people who find comfort in his kindness, and come to confide in him their problems and dreams.
Like Mick, the tomboy who wants to become a pianist; Dr. Copeland, the black doctor fighting for the dignity of his race; Biff Brannon, the philosophical restaurateur; and Blound, the alcoholic unionist. Each one is fighting their own battle, but they all dream of the same thing: to shake off the shackles of loneliness.
In McCullers' world, however, a world of existential anxiety and unhealed emotional trauma, the heart chases alone… A great novel, the first by Carson McCullers, which established her instantly as one of the most important voices in American literature of the 20th century.
