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The Ballad of the Sad Café
Carson McCullers
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Description for The Ballad of the Sad Café
Paperback. A collection of Carson McCullers' stories, including her novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and "Wunderkind". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York Times
Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers, and The Ballad of the Sad Café collects her best-loved novella together with six short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
Miss Amelia Evans, tall, strong and nobody's fool, runs a small-town store. Except for a disastrous marriage that lasted just ten days, she has always lived alone. Then Cousin Lymon appears from nowhere, a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141183695
SKU
V9780141183695
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About Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, including The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. McCullers suffered from ill health most of her adult ... Read more
Reviews for The Ballad of the Sad Café
Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories
The New York Times
Unexpectedly moving, grimly amusing, intensely atmospheric
The Times
The greatest prose writer that the South produced ... She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass
Tennessee Williams Of all ... Read more
The New York Times
Unexpectedly moving, grimly amusing, intensely atmospheric
The Times
The greatest prose writer that the South produced ... She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass
Tennessee Williams Of all ... Read more