Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories

When she was only twenty-three her first novel, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, created a literary sensation. She is very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. A grotesque human triangle in a primitive Southern town...A young boy learning the difficult lessons of manhood... A fateful encounter with his native land and former love...These are parts of the world of Carson McCullers-a world of the lost, the injured, the eternal strangers at life's feast. Here are brilliant revelations of love and longing, bitter heartbreak and occasional happiness-tales that probe the very heart of our lives.McCullers, Carson is the author of 'Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories', published 1983 under ISBN 9780553272543 and ISBN 0553272543.