The Ballad of the Sad Café
1951 book by Carson McCullers / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ballad of the Sad Café, first published in 1951, is a book by Carson McCullers comprising a novella of the same title along with six short stories: "Wunderkind", "The Jockey", "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland", "The Sojourner", "A Domestic Dilemma", and "A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud".
Author | Carson McCullers |
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Cover artist | R Murray |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Southern Gothic |
Published | 1951, Houghton Mifflin |
OCLC | 1112597 |
LC Class | PS3525.A1772 B3 |
The first edition of the book also included McCullers' previously published novels The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Member of the Wedding.
The American playwright Edward Albee adapted the novella as a stage play in 1963, which itself was adapted into a 1991 film of the same name starring Vanessa Redgrave and Keith Carradine.