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    <body><![CDATA[There are seven stories in this volume – of them I would guess that in six month time I will remember only two.  Those are the title story and the story called <em>The Sojourner</em>.  And to celebrate, those are the only stories I’ll talk about here except to say that one of the problems I found with th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36569607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lush and tender.  After reading the crappy sentences of &quot;The Pillars of the Earth,&quot; sinking into McCullers's sentences was like easing into a hot bath: &quot;In addition to the store she operated a still three miles back in the swamp, and ran out the best liquor in the country.&quot;  Ahh....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22271122">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[“The Ballad of the Sad Café” has an intensity which I can only liken to a Tennessee Williams play. Fantastic. McCullers mixes odd, complex characters together (like a wandering hunchback, the wealthiest woman of a small town, and the bad apple who is her ex-husband) and manages to make their st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30448304">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  Carson McCullers is probably the queen of Southern literature, and some would toss in the adjective &quot;Gothic&quot; to that description.  She published two powerful, dark, and wonderful books while in her early 20's, <u>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter</u> and <u>Reflections in a Golden Eye</u>.  This book was p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/734490">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Spring makes me nostalgic for the fiction of the American South, so when we decided to head down to my old stomping grounds for a week of vacation, I headed out to pick up a couple of volumes of short stories by Southern writers.  This was the first one I read and the first time I'd ever read anythi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1385382">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic Southern Gothic, my favorite genre, at it's best! Carson McCullers was a master of her craft.  The stories of love and loss and all the complications therein are perfectly laid out by a wonderful writer.  The symbolism in her writing is amazing and I love the way that each character represen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64641244">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Primary story about what could be classed as a unique love triangle between a man, women and a hunchback. The story came along at an interesting and fair pace but then the tension sped up for me when an expected fight between the couple was on the cards. The run up and training regime and preparatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69848978">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[   &lt;<em>The Ballad of the Sad Cafe</em> is more of a novella than a story, and takes up about half the pages of this collection.  It this story,  three people in a small town in Georgia in the early 20th-century  --Miss  Amelia- who is self-centered, mannish, and homely;  Marvin, the man who inexplicably ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56976493">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is a quick read—beautiful and bleak.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Carson McCullers is a southern gothic writer. In college, we are asked to read a book called &quot;The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.&quot; While the plot of this story is not particularly thought provoking, it is one of the more interesting gothic stories I have ever read. There was a small independent fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77196461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short stories.  The first (The Ballad of the Sad Café) is a novella; the others are much shorter. It told the eventful history of Miss Amelia, a manly stingy intimidating woman who owned a café.  A hunchback cousin comes to stay with her and eventually she loses a fight with her ex, the cafe close...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51160016">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>“Any number of wicked things could be listed against him, but quite apart from these crimes there was about him a secret meaness that clung to him almost like a smell.”</em><br/><br/>Sometimes I pick up a book, read it, and realize with a kind of fear that there are just too many great writers I’...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37334301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first introduction to this author, and I’m glad I began with this collection. While each of these short stories are enjoyable (I also especially liked “<em>The Sojourner</em>”), it was the novella from which the book takes its title that really touched me with its message of love and all it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20576967">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished the first short story: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. WOW. WOW. WOW. On one page I was laughing out loud and the next page I felt like my heart was ripped from my chest. <br/><br/>McCullers slashes and burns gender and sexual stereotypes, stomps all over them with big swamp boots.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12189655">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about a woman called Miss Amelia who intentionally likes her cousin Lymon.  Her husband was arrested for violence and when they were apart from each other, her cousin came into the story.  Cousin Lymon was fascinated with Marvin Macy who was Miss Amelia's husband and he would follow him...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59469508">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first and title story of this book is much like the other work I've read by McCullers.  The rest of it isn't not good, as much as it is surprising.  I didn't realize she had the depth that she seems to.  This is not a question of her skill as a writer, but more a question of how much she got out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73639676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;It is for this reason that most of us would rather love than be loved. Almost everyone wants to be the lover. And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being be loved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30596824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Four stars for Ballad of the Sad Cafe, five for the other stories collected here, especially the playful &quot;Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland&quot; and the melancholy &quot;The Sojourner&quot;. McCullers' characters, filled with quirks and odd desires, are touchingly human and the kind of p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52310764">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm glad I read this -- but The Ballad of the Sad Cafe struck me as most potent in its mood and bleakness, and I was frustrated at not being given access to what seemed to me the most mysterious and interesting of this menage a trois -- why, oh, why was she so obsessed with this show-offy, self-cent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7876655">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really admire McCullers ability to tell a story. The volume I picked up included six of her short stories, each of which I thoroughly enjoyed. She is a very skilled writer and the characters she created are somewhat out of this world, larger than life yet very real and authentic human beings too. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79187537">more...</a>]]></body>
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