Carson McCullers has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 17 ratings. The most-rated is The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Summary
Carson McCullers was all of 23 when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her "the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced." The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s. Richard Wright was astonished by McCullers's ability "to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness." Hers is a humanity that touches all who come to her work, whether for the first time or, as so many do, time and time again. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, most enduring best.
©1940, 1967 Carson Smith McCullers (P)2004 HarperCollins Publishers
The Member of the Wedding
Summary
The best way to experience this classic of the American South is by joining five-time Academy Award nominee and Best Actress winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking, Thelma & Louise) as she guides the listener on a journey through the anguish of adolescence and isolation. "Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed," said The New York Times of Carson McCullers' sensitive portrayal of Frankie Addams, a disconnected 12-year-old whose only friends are her family’s maid and a six-year-old cousin. Desperate to be part of something big, she takes an overlarge interest in her brother’s wedding and dreams of following the couple on their honeymoon to the Alaskan wilderness. But as Frankie crosses into adulthood, she experiences the fantasy-shattering disillusionment that must come with it. This is a story for anybody who’s ever felt like an outsider and a natural fit for Ms. Sarandon, a master at creating authentic, sympathetic characters.
©1946 Carson McCullers (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Summary
Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a Golden Eye tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Upon the novel's publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject matter. But a critic for Time Magazine wrote, "In almost any hands, such material would yield a rank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase." Written during a time when McCullers's own marriage to Reeves was on the brink of collapse, her second novel deals with her trademark themes of alienation and unfulfilled loves.
©1941 Carson McCullers (P)2011 Audible, Inc.
The Member of the Wedding
Summary
Gangly, outspoken 12-year-old Frankie Addams yearns to belong to the “we of me,” and in a Southern kitchen, pours her heart out to the family cook, Berenice. One of the most beautiful plays ever written about loneliness and love.
©2009 L.A. Theatre Works (P)2009 L.A. Theatre Works
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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Set in a small mill town in the 1930s in the middle of the Deep South of America, Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is the story of Mick Kelly, a tomboyish girl who loves music and dreams of buying a piano. John Singer is a lonely deaf-mute who comes to stay as a lodger in Mick's house. No-one knows where he's from. A disparate group of people who live in the town are drawn towards Singer's kind, sympathetic nature: the owner of the café where Singer eats every day, an angry socialist drunkard, a frustrated Black doctor. Each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant. And he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways the could never imagine. Often cited as one of the great novels of 20th-century American fiction, Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just 23. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter explores loneliness, the human need for understanding and the search for love. Cast Mick Kelly...Coco Green Bubber...Aaron Gelkoff John Singer...David Bower Biff Brannon...Michael S. Siegel Jake Blount...Andonis Anthony Alice Brannon...Laurel Lefkow Portia Jones...Anna Jobarteh Dr Benedict Copeland...Delroy Brown Etta Kelly...Lily Green Willie Copeland/Deputy Sheriff...Tachia Newall Harry Minowitz...Eric Sirakian Dramatised by Amanda Dalton Directed by Susan Roberts
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