Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

This collection of twenty-one pieces includes The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. Though best known for her novels, Carson McCullers was also a writer of dazzling short fiction. The novellas and stories collected here span her entire career, from her apprenticeship in the 1930s through her years of mastery in the 40s & 50s. They explore her signature themes: wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, the human comedy as played in the American South. Though her subject matter is often grotesque and her situation extreme, McCullers is not a sensationalist; she is instead a poet & symbolist, a kind of second Hawthorne, searching the luminous meanings behind things in the world.