Record Number |
746690 |
ISBN |
9780395925058 (paperback) |
0395925053 (paperback) |
Author |
McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 author. |
Title |
Collected stories : including The member of the wedding and The ballad of the sad café / Carson McCullers ; introduction by Virginia Spencer Carr. |
Edition |
First Mariner Books edition. |
Publisher/Date |
New York, New York : Houghton Mifflin, 1998. |
©1987. |
Pagination etc. |
xv, 394 pages ; 21 cm. |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-394) |
Contents note |
Sucker -- Court in the west eighties -- Poldi -- Breath from the sky -- The orphanage -- Instant of the hour after -- Like that -- Wunderkind -- The aliens -- Untitled piece -- The jockey -- Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland -- Coorespondence -- A tree - a rock - a cloud -- Art and Mr. Mahoney -- The sojourner -- A domestic dilemma -- The haunted boy -- Who has seen the wind? -- The ballad of the sad cafe -- Themember of the wedding. |
Summary Note |
Carson McCullers--novelist, dramatist, poet--was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction. Here are nineteen stories that explore her signature themes: wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South. Here too are "The Member of the Wedding" and "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," novellas that Tennessee Williams judged to be "assuredly among the masterpieces of our language." |
Subject |
-- Social life and customs -- Fiction. |
Short stories. |
Added Author |
Carr, Virginia Spencer author of introduction, etc. |
Shelf Location |
F MACC |