The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe: and other stories
by McCullers, CarsonEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-04-05
Publisher(s): Mariner Books
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Summary
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including her beloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." 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 cafe serves as the town's gathering place. 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. Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsome trade paperback edition, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is a brilliant study of love and longing from one of the South's finest writers.
Author Biography
Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock Without Hands. Born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917, she became a promising pianist and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was seventeen, but lacking money for tuition, she never attended classes. Instead she studied writing at Columbia University, which ultimately led to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the novel that made her an overnight literary sensation. On September 29, 1967, at age fifty, she died in Nyack, New York, where she is buried.
Table of Contents
| The Ballad of the Sad Café | 1 | (72) | |
| Wunderkind | 73 | (18) | |
| The Jockey | 91 | (10) | |
| Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland | 101 | (12) | |
| The Sojourner | 113 | (14) | |
| A Domestic Dilemma | 127 | (14) | |
| A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud | 141 |
Excerpts
"This collection assembles Carson McGuller's best stories, including her beloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." 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 cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes "Wunderkind," McCuller'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."--BOOK JACKET.
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