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Carson McCullers

The Ballad of the Sad Café Paperback Book

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Iconic literary collection
Includes acclaimed novella
Thought-provoking Southern Gothic
Portable paperback format
Classic, timeless fiction
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Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullerss finest stories The New York TimesFew 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 Caf collects her bestloved novella together with six short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Miss Amelia Evans, tall, strong and nobodys fool, runs a smalltown store. Except for a disastrous marriage that lasted just ten days, she has always lived alone. Then Cousin Lymon appears from nowhere, a strutting hunchback who steals Miss Amelias heart. Together they transform the store into a lively, popular caf where the locals come to drink and gossip. But when her rejected and dangerous exhusband Marvin Macy returns, the result is a bizarre love triangle that brings with it violence, hatred and betrayal. Among other fine works, the collection also includes Wunderkind, McCullerss first published story written when she was only seventeen, about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.

SKU: M9780141183695
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Binding: Paperback;160 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 244 g; Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 11

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