by Carson McCullers · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140019070
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«The Ballad of the Sad Cafe» is Carson McCullers' collection of short stories published by Penguin Classics in paperback (160 pages, in English).
The central story is a tale of unrequited love in the American South: Miss Amelia, a shop owner, turns her premises into a café after falling for the hunchback Cousin Lymon; when her ex-husband Marvin Macy returns, a triangle charged with violence emerges. The other stories explore loneliness and the longing for connection.
The volume brings together the title novella and six stories: «Wunderkind», «The Jockey», «Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland», «The Sojourner», «A Domestic Dilemma» and «A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud».
For lovers of classic American fiction and Southern Gothic.
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes. Most are set in the Deep South.
