Book description
'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York Times
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, and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe…
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To be honest, I initially picked up this book just for the title; the idea that a café could sing a sad ballad fascinated me; it also showed me how important a title is! There is a line in the book that I feel perfectly sums up the need for cafés in our lives, ‘for people in this town were then unused to gathering together for the sake of pleasure.’
The idea that cafés allow us a place for pleasure; to come sit together or apart, they are valuable sanctuaries where everyone is welcome. This story made me consider how…
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