The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers, 9780141183695, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. I found myself reading it again and again because I just liked the way the story sounded in my head. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: And Other Stories by Carson McCullers at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0618565868 - ISBN 13: 9780618565863 - Mariner Books - 2005 - Softcover

The Ballad of the Sad Café THE TOWN itself is dreary; not much is there except the cotton mill, the two-room houses where the workers live, a few peach trees, a church with two colored windows, and a miserable main street only a hundred yards long.

Femininity as Performance in Carson McCullers’ ‘The Ballad of the Sad Café’, ‘The Member of the Wedding’ and ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’ Love in Carson McCullers’ “The Ballad of the Sad Caf ... Because of her misfortunes, Miss Amelia made the decision to close her café and along with that the last ounce of excitement in the abandoned district disappears. Dive deep into Carson McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Café with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion I was first turned onto Carson McCullers in a southern lit class in college. It seems as though all hope had been lost. Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Sad Cafe was required reading, and one of the best stories I read that whole semester.

McCullers … Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts in a small town of the Southern United States.Her other novels have similar themes and most are set in the deep South.