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.” A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia a formidable southern woman whose café serves as the town’s gathering place. 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. Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsome trade paperback edition The Ballad of the Sad Café is a brilliant study of love and longing from one of the South’s finest writers.
