num_pages: 157
description: The title story of this collection follows a simple triangle of unrequited love. Miss Amelia, gaunt and lonely owner of a small town store, squanders her love on cousin Lymon, the little strutting hunchback who turned the store into a cafe.
language: English
title: The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe
titlecomplete: The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe
genres: Fiction, American, Short Stories, Gothic, Literature, Classics, 20th Century, Southern, Literary Fiction, Southern Gothic
ratings_count: 22129
publisher: Penguin Books