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The Ballad of the Sad Café
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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
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.
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The Ballad of the Sad Café is praised for its unexpected emotional depth and atmospheric storytelling. The Times highlights its grim humour, while Gore Vidal commends its enduring quality among Southern writers. The New York Times calls it McCullers's finest story, showcasing her remarkable talent.
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ISBN: 9780241590546
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 25 August 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 117.0mm
Height: 169.0mm
Weight: 162g
Pages: 128
About the Author
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 life, including a series of strokes that began when she was in her 20s; she died at the age of 50. The Member of the Wedding was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991).
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