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Title: Ballad Of The Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers ISBN: 0-553-27254-3 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1983 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (23 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Story to Capture Your Heart
Comment: Carson McCullers has a fine collection of stories here. The main story about the Cafe' I found to be brilliant, very thought-provoking and somewhat enchanting. The characters are very unusual, but the author makes them believable and makes you become emotionally part of the story. The stories that followed in this collection are all very well written, but a few lacked substance and I found some of them to be dry and disappointing as a reader in comparison to the first one in the book. The final one in the collection was very creative and inspiring, however, and demonstrates the incredible power of this author. A worthwhile read if you are exploring the writing of great American authors. I enjoyed it.
Rating: 5
Summary: was it a set up?
Comment: Carson McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Cafe was an extremely amazing tail. I read this book for an english class and I came to the conclusion that this story was not about love, but deception. Look closely at the way Lymon grew so attached to Marvin so quickly, and how at the end of the fight Lymon ruined the action. All signs point toward a definte duo of trash when it comes to Lymon and Marvin. The biggest kicker of them all is the end of the story with the prison men on the side of the road.
Rating: 5
Summary: In the Company of Greatness
Comment: This is a limpid, beautiful story, wonderfully told. The whole setting exemplifies Southern Gothic from the word go: "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 coloured windows, and a miserable main street only a hundred yards long."
I was hooked by the beginning, evoking dilapidation, isolation, heat, distress and latent fear/weirdness. Much has been written on McCullough's "lover and beloved" theme, well explored here. The characters are an unforgettable collection of weirdos, still, somehow, typically American; the descriptions are poetic. In general the writing rings true, is economic yet lyrical - nothing is wasted.
Great as "The Great Gatsby", in its way. Much better than "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter". It lives up to its title, truly a "ballad" - a songlike story. And the ballad of the mixed-race chain gang that ends it ties the story to the South.
I was sorry to finish it! Utterly compelling.
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Title: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by CARSON MCCULLERS ISBN: 0553269631 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1983 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers ISBN: 0618084754 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 08 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers ISBN: 0553250515 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams ISBN: 0451167783 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: American Gothic Tales by Joyce Carol Oates ISBN: 0452274893 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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