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The Ballad of the Sad Café, first published in 1951, is a book by Carson McCullers comprising a novella of the same title along with six short stories: "Wunderkind", "The Jockey", "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland", "The Sojourner", "A Domestic Dilemma", and "A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud".
- Carson McCullers
- 1951
The Ballad of the Sad Café, long novella by Carson McCullers, the title work in a collection of short stories, published in 1951. Peopled with bizarre and grotesque characters, the novella has a folkloric quality and is considered one of the author’s best works.
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The Ballad of the Sad Café, a novella, depicts loneliness and the pain of unrequited love. It tells the unlikely circumstance of how a café came to be. Miss Amelia, a formidable Amazon of a woman, runs a liquor still by herself after her husband whom she abused left her.
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The Ballad of the Sad Café is a 1991 Southern Gothic drama film directed by Simon Callow in his directorial debut, and starring Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, and Rod Steiger. Its plot follows Amelia, a moonshiner in rural 1930s Georgia whose lonely life is interrupted by the arrival of two men: First, her long-lost cousin, and later, her ...
The Ballad of the Sad Café is a novella by American author Carson McCullers, first published in 1951 by Houghton Mifflin as part of the author's short fiction collection The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories.
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Directed by Simon Callow. With Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Cork Hubbert, Rod Steiger. A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine.
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Apr 5, 2005 · The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe: and Other Stories. Paperback – April 5, 2005. by Carson McCullers (Author) 4.2 869 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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.” "Glowingly ...
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