The Ballad Of The Sad Café – Carson McCullers

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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. The Ballad of the Sad Café is her masterpiece: an unruly, bittersweet novella concerning the most unlikely of love triangles.

‘The greatest prose writer that the South produced … She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass’ – Tennessee Williams