American Literature / Unit 16 AML 1517 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Carson McCullers and *The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter*
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The idea
The witness calls McCullers the literary wunderkind of the second wave of the Southern renaissance, who arrived in the national spotlight at twenty-three with her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, in nineteen forty. Her subject is isolation inside a community.
In practice
A first novel at twenty-three.
Where people slip
Wunderkind is the witness's word for her.
Your place on the trail
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