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With the publication of her first book, ONE'S HEART IS Just A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all twenty three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is recognized as McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center may be the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for numerous kinds of misfits in a Georgia mill town throughout the 1930s. Each one of these yearns for escape from small-town life.