The Heart Is a Lonely Copywriter
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Here is the back cover copy for an old edition of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. I find it both comic and endearing in its earnestness. It's like an SNL skit of a local cable show on literary appreciation:
"This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, some with sex or drink, and some--like Mick--with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty."
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Here is the back cover copy for an old edition of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. I find it both comic and endearing in its earnestness. It's like an SNL skit of a local cable show on literary appreciation:
"This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, some with sex or drink, and some--like Mick--with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty."
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