The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

by Carson McCullers

Penguin, 1963, ISBN 9780140181302, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owner’s inscription erased form author biography page, some underlining and notes in graphite on some pages, age toned edges (see photographs)

“IN the small masterpiece which gives its title to this collection, a simple triangle of unrequited love is magically transmuted into  a miniature epic with the melancholy atmosphere of a ballad.
For this is the tale of Miss Amelia, gaunt and lonely owner of a small-town store; and how she squandered her love on Cousin Lymon, the little strutting hunchback who turned the store into a café; and how her rejected husband, Marvin Macy, the meanest man in town, came back and stole the hunchback’s heart; and of the gargantuan fight that followed.”