The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
Originally published in 1940.
Part One
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IN THE TOWN there were two mutes, and they were always together. Early every morning they would come out from the house where they lived and walk arm in arm down the street to work. The two friends were very different. The one who always steered the way was an obese and dreamy Greek. In the summer he would come out wearing a yellow or green polo shirt stuffed sloppily into his trousers ...