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Book

Collected stories : including The member of the wedding and The ballad of the sad café

Call Number

  • FICTION MCCU (CEN)

Edition

1st Mariner Books ed.

Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Physical Description

xv, 394 p. ; 21 cm.

Summary

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 two novellas that Tennessee Williams judged to be "assuredly among the masterpieces of our language."--From publisher description.

Notes

"A Mariner book."

Contents

  • 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
  • Correspondence
  • 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 café
  • The member of the wedding.

Subjects

Added Authors

Carson McCullers