The Ballad of the Sad Café - Carson McCullers

The Ballad of the Sad Café

Buch | Softcover
160 Seiten
2001
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-118369-5 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
A collection of Carson McCullers' stories, including her novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and "Wunderkind".
'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York Times

Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers, and The Ballad of the Sad Café collects her best-loved novella together with six short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Miss Amelia Evans, tall, strong and nobody's fool, runs a small-town store. Except for a disastrous marriage that lasted just ten days, she has always lived alone. Then Cousin Lymon appears from nowhere, a strutting hunchback who steals Miss Amelia's heart. Together they transform the store into a lively, popular café where the locals come to drink and gossip. But when her rejected and dangerous ex-husband Marvin Macy returns, the result is a bizarre love triangle that brings with it violence, hatred and betrayal. 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.

Carson McCullers was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, including The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. McCullers suffered from ill health most of her adult life, including a series of strokes that began when she was in her 20s; she died at the age of 50. The Member of the Wedding was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Café (1991).

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.3.2001
Reihe/Serie Penguin Modern Classics
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 199 mm
Gewicht 125 g
Themenwelt Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
Schlagworte Englisch; Romane/Erzählungen
ISBN-10 0-14-118369-1 / 0141183691
ISBN-13 978-0-14-118369-5 / 9780141183695
Zustand Neuware
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