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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is a masterpiece. It's a story I read in snippets, whenever I could for a couple of days. I read it waiting in the car, or whenever I had a moment or two to walk into the small southern town and visit with Miss Amelia and Cousin Lymon. I also read it out loud to whomever would listen because it's a book that deserves to be read aloud.

This story is Southern Gothic at it's finest. I have lived in the south and have seen the dark swamps and endless rainy days. I can imagine it back in the day when a still was a source of liveliness in a boring, dying town. Well, to see a hunchback dwarf wander into town would have almost been too much as it was, but to see him claim kin to the richest, ornriest, most reclusive woman in town would have been downright exciting. And what's even more bizarre, is that she welcomes him into her home and allows him to stay with her - why, the ugly rumors run rampant!

Miss Amelia couldn't have been happier to accomodate Cousin Lymon, since she'd lived alone since the day long ago that her daddy died. She had someone to care for and that is something she did well being the town doctor too! My, how she loved Cousin Lymon and tenderly cared for him over the years.

The cafe that is created around Cousin Lymon and Miss Amelia's still, draws everyone in the town together for evenings of chatter and company and swills of excellent whisky and the boastering story telling of the lively, Cousin Lymon. The cafe becomes a great place to escape and to enjoy some hours in the evening especially since Cousin Lymon hates to be alone in the fearful night.

Everything changes when the ex-husband of Miss Amelia, from a whopping ten day marriage, wanders back after a stint in the pentitiary down in Atlanta, and he is a nasty.

If you like a good Southern Gothic tale, this is a must read. You will love the lyrical writing. The atmosphere is so drawn that you can live there a spell in that small town and hear the chain gang singing, off working in the distance and feel the sweat trickle down your back cooled, maybe, by a slight sudden breeze.

You'll want to read this story out loud to whom ever will listen.

Carson McCullers writes so well. With The Sad Cafe's cast of characters, this story has the chance to be campy or humorous, but it's told with such command of language that is is heartbreakingly understood. It is a tale that shows great depths of human emotion packed into a short jaunt into the deep south back in the day when a dirty, hunchbacked dwarf comes wandering into town at midnight.


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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories Carson Mccullers 9780618565863 Books Reviews

This is a classic for a reason -- still great and transportive. IF you haven't already read it - you're in for a treat. Timeless and meaningful and well, wow. Always. Sheds such light on the human condition.
McCullers writes about the existential problem of evil and goodness that lie at he heart of every man. What's faith? How does trust operate? What is love that enkindles the good that men do. The Café is a microcosm of the real world, where all these questions are answered. The interplay of men and women, wracked first by doubt, then wounded by sinfulness, is enunciated by the author. The resolution towards the end of the novel points to charity as the compensatory gift for men to venture into the fullness of relationships in spite of all existential issues that beset them.
Gave this to our daughter for Christmas. She is a College Englush Prifesdir. Carson McCullars is her favorite author. It was a big hit, especially since it included ‘The Heart us a Lonely Hunter.’
One of the best of maybe a half dozen all time favorite novelettes, an excellent example of the best in southern writers and story telling. This is the most unique, peculiar and touching love story I've ever read.
If you are a reader, read this book, I guarantee you'll never forget it.
I began reading Carson McCullers with her incredible novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I later moved on to her short stories, which had incredible depth, sadness, and soul despite their short length. Miss Amelia in the title story is one of the most remarkable female characters I've ever read about and identified with. If you like Southern gothic with heart, or enjoy Flannery O'Connor, you will love McCullers.
The Ballad of the Sad Café broke my heart. Miss Amelia, Cousin Lymon, the Macy brothers, and a cast of other sad characters live in a dreary town. "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 years long....The winters here are short and raw, the summer s white with glare and fiery hot." It doesn't sound like a place I want to visit, let alone live. And yet, even in a dreary little town like this one, there is drama and love and raw human emotion.

What is this thing called love? Who is this hunchback who came into town and bewitched Miss Amelia and awakened the bleak little town? We quickly learn that his name is Cousin Lymon and that he has the ability to make a connection with everyone with whom he comes in contact, including Miss Amelia. Within a short period of time, Miss Amelia's store is transformed into a café where the townspeople come together to eat, drink, and be merry. It remains the gathering place until the night that Cousin Lymon shows his true colors.

In her uniquely skillful way, McCullers tells a story of love and the different and surprising twists it can take. Marvin Macy loves Miss Amelia, but she doesn't love him. She, however, comes to love Cousin Lymon who appears to care for her until Marvin Macy comes back into this desolate little town after a stint in the penitentiary. Cousin Lymon then falls for Macy who doesn't give him the proverbial time of day. The plot thickens.

This is not a happily ever after book, but it's one well worth reading, especially if you want to see writing at its best. The descriptions of the people and their environment and emotions are superb. For example, after reading this description of Miss Amelia, I think I'd recognize her anywhere "a dark, tall woman with bones and muscles like a man. Her hair was cut short and brushed back from the forehead and there was about her sunburned face a tense, haggard quality. She might have been a handsome woman, if, even then, she was not slightly cross-eyed."

Unrequited love, the need for human contact, revenge, and betrayal are some of the themes that run throughout the book. Reading it reminded me that love can take us to the heights and depths of emotion and that we are just as likely to fall in love with those who are bad for us as with those who are our perfect matches.
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is a masterpiece. It's a story I read in snippets, whenever I could for a couple of days. I read it waiting in the car, or whenever I had a moment or two to walk into the small southern town and visit with Miss Amelia and Cousin Lymon. I also read it out loud to whomever would listen because it's a book that deserves to be read aloud.

This story is Southern Gothic at it's finest. I have lived in the south and have seen the dark swamps and endless rainy days. I can imagine it back in the day when a still was a source of liveliness in a boring, dying town. Well, to see a hunchback dwarf wander into town would have almost been too much as it was, but to see him claim kin to the richest, ornriest, most reclusive woman in town would have been downright exciting. And what's even more bizarre, is that she welcomes him into her home and allows him to stay with her - why, the ugly rumors run rampant!

Miss Amelia couldn't have been happier to accomodate Cousin Lymon, since she'd lived alone since the day long ago that her daddy died. She had someone to care for and that is something she did well being the town doctor too! My, how she loved Cousin Lymon and tenderly cared for him over the years.

The cafe that is created around Cousin Lymon and Miss Amelia's still, draws everyone in the town together for evenings of chatter and company and swills of excellent whisky and the boastering story telling of the lively, Cousin Lymon. The cafe becomes a great place to escape and to enjoy some hours in the evening especially since Cousin Lymon hates to be alone in the fearful night.

Everything changes when the ex-husband of Miss Amelia, from a whopping ten day marriage, wanders back after a stint in the pentitiary down in Atlanta, and he is a nasty.

If you like a good Southern Gothic tale, this is a must read. You will love the lyrical writing. The atmosphere is so drawn that you can live there a spell in that small town and hear the chain gang singing, off working in the distance and feel the sweat trickle down your back cooled, maybe, by a slight sudden breeze.

You'll want to read this story out loud to whom ever will listen.

Carson McCullers writes so well. With The Sad Cafe's cast of characters, this story has the chance to be campy or humorous, but it's told with such command of language that is is heartbreakingly understood. It is a tale that shows great depths of human emotion packed into a short jaunt into the deep south back in the day when a dirty, hunchbacked dwarf comes wandering into town at midnight.