The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories - Carson McCullers • BookLikes (ISBN:B003UEQO3A)

The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

by: Carson McCullers (author)

Format: kindle

ASIN: B003UEQO3A

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Classics, Literature, American, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, Southern, Female Authors, Short Stories, Gothic, Southern Gothic

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--The Ballad of the Sad Café--Wunderkind--The Jockey--Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland--The Sojourner--A Domestic Dilemma--A Tree, a Rock, a CloudChronology

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McCullers' voice in this haunting tale (like that of Ngugi wa Thiong'o in A Grain of Wheat) often takes on the folk ballad posture of an anonymous (or perhaps dispersed) community member. She labours over the authenticity of this tone, fleshing it with a complete vocabulary of cultural experience av...

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Poignant short story of repressed feelings, mystery and missed opportunity in a small impoverished southern community, concerning Miss Amelia, cousin Lymon the hunchback, and Marvin Macy. It also contains several even shorter stories in the book, several with an overtly musical theme - like the titl...

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