num_pages: 152
description: THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFELanky, raw boned, and good with her fists, Amelia Evans was the most feared and respected personage in her dusty, one-road, primitive Southern town. She was also the doctor, moonshiner, and proprietor of the small cafe she ran with her strange hunchbacked cousin, Lymon. The town still whispered rumors about Miss Amelia's mysterious ten-day marriage to no-good Marvin Macy. Then one fine golden autumn Marvin returned from the penitentiary and to the crooked path of a true love gone terribly awry.AND OTHER STORIESIn this spellbinding collection one of America's most distinguished writers takes us on an exhilarating odyssey through the many seasons of the human spirit. From a boy learning the difficult lessons of manhood... a young father coping with his wife's alcoholism... a musical prodigy discovering her heart is not in her music... a middle-aged man confronting his father's death and his own impending mortality here are brilliant reveleations of love and longing, bitter heartbreak and ocasional happiness -- tales that touch the very heart of our lives.
language: English
title: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
genres: Fiction, American, Short Stories, Gothic, Literature, Classics, 20th Century, Southern, Literary Fiction, Southern Gothic
ratings_count: 22119
publisher: Bantam Books, published by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company