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The Outsiders

April 4, 2018 by Ale Leave a Comment

Capital ‘L’ literature puzzles me as I often feel that it’s a giant waste of time while I’m in the middle, but then I get to the end and reflect on it, and I realize that having read the book was worthwhile. This sentiment couldn’t be more true than my feeling on finishing “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.” On a surface perspective, I read 350 pages in which nothing really happened and the characters went nowhere. But on a deeper inspection, the pages roil with […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Great Depression, heart is a lonely hunter, Literature, loneliness, mccullers, poverty

Ale's CBR10 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Great Depression, heart is a lonely hunter, Literature, loneliness, mccullers, poverty ·
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