The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers

Carson McCullers and many other persons, however, claim that she wrote in the style of southern realism, a genre that Russian realism inspired. Editor of McCullers suggested the title, taken from ' The Lonely Hunter,' poem of Fiona MacLeod. In Fayetteville, North Carolina, she at 23 years of age wrote The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter in the southern gothic tradition. Reeves found some work at Charlotte, North Carolina, where they began their married life. She from 1935 to 1937 divided her time, as her studies and health dictated, between Columbus and New York and in September 1937 married Reeves McCullers, an ex-soldier and aspiring writer. She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass' - Tennessee Williamsįiction of American writer Carson Smith McCullers explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts of the South her novels include The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) and The Member of the Wedding (1946). 'The greatest prose writer that the South produced. The Ballad of the Sad Café is her masterpiece: an unruly, bittersweet novella concerning the most unlikely of love triangles.

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The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers