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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: And Other Stories

✍ Scribed by Carson McCullers


Publisher
Mariner Books;Bantam Books
Year
2005;1999
Tongue
English
Weight
89 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers’s best stories, including her beloved novella β€œThe Ballad of the Sad CafΓ©.” A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose cafΓ© serves as the town’s gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes β€œWunderkind,” McCullers’s 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. Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsome trade paperback edition, The Ballad of the Sad CafΓ© is a brilliant study of love and longing from one of the South’s finest writers.

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Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780618565863


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