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“The Ballad of the Sad Café” by Carson McCullers

“In The Ballad of the Sad Café, a tale of unrequited love, Miss Amelia, a spirited, unconventional woman, runs a small-town store and, except for a marriage that lasted just ten days, has always lived alone. Then Cousin Lymon appears from nowhere, a little, strutting hunchback who steals Miss Amelia's heart from her. Together they transform the store into a lively, popular café. But when her rejected husband Marvin Macy returns, the result is a bizarre love triangle that brings with it violence, hatred and betrayal.”

Taken from Penguin Classics.

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_McCullers

http://www.carson-mccullers.com/html/ballad.html

http://www.enotes.com/short-story-criticism/ballad-sad-cafe-mccullers-carson

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The ballad of the sad cafe / by Carson McCullers. — Essex: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998. — 109 p. ; 20cm — (Longman Fiction. Advanced full text).

ISBN-0 582-27846-5

PN6013.57.M33 1998