COLLECTED STORIES; Including the Members of the Wedding and the Ballad of the Sad Cafe

First edition, first printing. NOT ex-library. The book was gently read and is very sharp. The jacket generally is sharp. It has moderate signs of handling and a few tiny stains, including one on the lower end of the spine.

This work collects for the first time all 19 of McCullers's stories from a 1951 edition and from The Mortgaged Heart (1971). Her most critically acclaimed novels round out the reader, while the author's biographer Virginia Carr provides a lucid, thoughtful introduction. McCullers patented the Southern gothic genre that embraces grotesque, morbid characters with such pervading themes as unrequited love and wounded adolescence. Largely set in the South and richly autobiographical, her writings have endured because of their great power and originality. Sure to appeal to the general reader, the volume will also satisfy scholars with its broad look at McCullers's oeuvre. Edward C. Lynskey, Documentation, Atlantic Research Corp., Alexandria, Va.
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