Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Mccullers, Carson

ISBN 10: 0395925053 / ISBN 13: 9780395925058

Published by Mariner Books Classics, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
• Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395925053
• ISBN 13: 9780395925058
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

The novelist, dramatist, and poet Carson McCullers was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction.

In nineteen stories that explore her signature themes of wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South, McCullers's novellas "The Member of the Wedding" and "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" are also included.

"[These novellas are] assuredly among the masterpieces of our language," Tennesee Williams said.

About the Author

Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock Without Hands. Born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917, she became a promising pianist and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was seventeen, but lacking money for tuition, she never attended classes. Instead she studied writing at Columbia University, which ultimately led to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the novel that made her an overnight literary sensation. On September 29, 1967, at age fifty, she died in Nyack, New York, where she is buried.