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    <![CDATA[The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: and Other Stories]]>
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    <![CDATA[A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including her beloved novella &quot;The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.&quot; A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose cafe serves as the town's gathering place.  Among other fine works, the collection also includes &quot;Wunderkind,&quot; McCullers's first published story written when she was only seventeen about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.  Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsome trade paperback edition, The Ballad of the Sad Caf is a brilliant study of love and longing from one of the South's finest writers.]]>
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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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