The Ballad of the Sad Café

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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. The Ballad of the Sad Café is her masterpiece: an unruly, bittersweet novella concerning the most unlikely of love triangles.

‘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

ISBN: 9780241590546

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Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as Carson McCullers. This volume contains seven stories, beginning with ‘The Ballad of the Sad Café’.

Additional information

Weight0.168 kg
Dimensions16.7 × 12 × 1.7 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

128

Language

English

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

813.52 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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