The Ballad of The Sad Cafe: The Novels and Stories of Carson McCullers
by McCULLERS, Carson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
In her biography of McCullers, *The Lonely Hunter*, Virginia Spencer Carr wrote "Edel was the only writer of stature whom she found personally appealing" (p.437). Edel found "her fancies about life much more appealing than her brooding on death" which he addressed with her and later wondered if it had some effect for later she laid aside *Clock Without Hands*' and started work on an amusing play about a child and architect father."
Edel was an important literary critic and "the foremost 20th-century authority on the life and works of Henry James. His work on James won him both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize." An effusive and affectionate inscription. Ex-library of Virginia Spencer Carr.
Synopsis
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.
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- Seller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 565354
- Title
- The Ballad of The Sad Cafe: The Novels and Stories of Carson McCullers
- Author
- McCULLERS, Carson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Women, SouthernAuthor/Interest, AmerLit20thCent, AssociationCopy
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