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 Cafe 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.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Among other fine works, the collection also includes 'Wunderkind', 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. But when her rejected and dangerous ex-husband Marvin Macy returns, the result is a bizarre love triangle that brings with it violence, hatred and betrayal. Together they transform the store into a lively, popular café where the locals come to drink and gossip. Then Cousin Lymon appears from nowhere, a strutting hunchback who steals Miss Amelia's heart. Except for a disastrous marriage that lasted just ten days, she has always lived alone. Miss Amelia Evans, tall, strong and nobody's fool, runs a small-town store. 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.
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