Carson McCullers
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| Original Title: | The Ballad of the Sad Café |
| ISBN: | 0618565868 (ISBN13: 9780618565863) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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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 Café.” 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 café 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 Café is a brilliant study of love and longing from one of the South’s finest writers.Describe Appertaining To Books The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
| Title | : | The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories |
| Author | : | Carson McCullers |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Mariner Books edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 152 pages |
| Published | : | April 5th 2005 by Mariner Books (Houghton Mifflin Company) (first published January 1st 1951) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. Gothic. Southern Gothic. American. Southern. Literature |
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Ratings: 4.01 From 10566 Users | 694 ReviewsWrite-Up Appertaining To Books The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
freshman high school english: book three I don't remember enough about this, but it is weird as fuck, and Carson McCullers is a gay icon. Imagine writing such fantastically obvious gay subtext in like, 1950.The Ballad of the Sad Café, title of the story that gives name to this collection, includes seven short, in some cases, almost minimalistic tales. Each one of them enhances a different aspect of thematic lines recurrent in McCullers works: the isolation and the loneliness juxtaposed to selfless love in implausible triangular relationships. What distinguishes these stories from others is the musical quality so idiosyncratic of McCullers voice along with the silent incursion of her evenly paced
I will write reviews as I complete each story.Seven stories and seven different narrators:David Ledoux, Joe Barrett, Therese Plummer, Kevin Pariseau, Suzanne Toren, Edoardo Ballerini, Barbara RosenblatI have asked Audible to tell me which narrator narrated which story. Have yet to receive a reply. ***************************************STORY 1The Ballad of the Sad Café :3 starsWhat I liked was the feel of the town. It was an entity in itself. The townspeople are not individuals, but a group.
4.5/5McCullers is one I come to for a reckoning, much as I do with Faulkner and O'Connor. One may bundle them up and slot them neatly under the label of Southern Gothic, but that is not a guaranteed invocation of cathedrals crazed by fecundity of both soil and symptom, an American way of the crooked cross where faith is a matter of lust and amputation. While Faulkner plunges in chiaroscuro and O'Connor sears in holy fire, McCullers sings in the twilight of a human soul, casting back on its years
This book is set in a southern miserable and dreary town . To be honest , the southern way of life and the portraits of southerners in general really reminded me of Zora Neale Hurtson's style , especially in Their eyes were watching god .I devoured this book in one sitting for I was so captivated by Miss Emelia's peculiar character.However , the hunchback is the one who caught my attention more , it's like everyone and everything are under his spell and charmed by him .Which is strange because
The Ballad of the Sad Café is a story about a love triangle mixed with a strong dose of love and hatred, devotion and betrayal, loneliness and companionship. It's a drama that in the end makes you laugh and weep. All the events take place in a small southern provincial town.Where raw realism encounters the absurd and the grotesque, comes a special combination, a gentle poetry of the miserable daily life, a tragedy so far-fetched that might seem comical, a transformation of real people into
Although the other short stories in this collection were really good it's Carson McCullers ability to write about the sad and lonely nature of small town life that really showcases her talent, and in 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe' she has beautifully crafted a simple and somewhat bewildering little tale that involves three main parties, the lady owner of a small store(which would later become a cafe), a strange hunchback who she takes to her heart, and her ex con husband who is back in town and
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