num_pages: 160
description: In The Ballad of the Sad Café, a tale of unrequited love, Miss Amelia, a spirited, unconventional woman, runs a small-town store and, except for a marriage that lasted just ten days, has always lived alone. Then Cousin Lymon appears from nowhere, a little, strutting hunchback who steals Miss Amelia's heart. Together they transform the store into a lively, popular café. But when her rejected husband Marvin Macy returns, the result is a bizarre love triangle that brings with it violence, hatred and betrayal.Six stories by Carson McCullers also appear in this volume.
language: English
title: The Ballad of the Sad Café
titlecomplete: The Ballad of the Sad Café
genres: Classics, Southern, Gothic, Fiction, Short Stories, Southern Gothic, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 22119
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd