The Ballad of the Sad Café

Nov 8, 2024 4:50 AM

Author: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

Reviews

Unexpectedly moving, grimly amusing, intensely atmospheric

—— The Times

Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure

—— Gore Vidal

Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest story

—— The New York Times

Nesbø's characteristic gift for outstanding atmosphere and gut-wrenching revelations, The Jealousy Man confirms that he is at the peak of his abilities.

—— Bookreporter, US

Alice Munro captures a kaleidoscope of lights and depths-she manages to reproduce the vibrant practice of life while scrutinizing the workings of her own narrative art-an exhilarating collection

—— New York Times

Whether Alice Munro's The Beggar Maid is a collection of stories or a new kind of novel I'm not quite sure, but whatever it is, it's wonderful. The psychological precision...the startling twists, the unexpected leaps in time, the transformation of familiar characters make the book what books ought to be, a little wild, a little mysterious

—— John Gardner

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