by Carson McCullers · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582278462
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«The Ballad of the Sad Café» is the novella by Carson McCullers, published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback (118 pages, in English).
Set in a town in the southern United States, Amelia, a strong and solitary woman, runs the local store after rejecting her husband, Marvin Macy. The arrival of her cousin Lymon, a charismatic hunchback, turns the store into a café; when Marvin returns, the love triangle unleashes jealousy and betrayal.
This Longman Fiction edition offers the complete text; the general editors are Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter. It was published in 1998 and the original work dates from 1951.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language (ELT/ESL), within the Longman Fiction collection.
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States. Her other novels have similar themes. Most are set in the Deep South.
