{"product_id":"the-ballad-of-the-sad-cafe-carson-mccullers","title":"The Ballad of the Sad Café (Carson Mccullers)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers. \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of the Sad Café \u003c\/i\u003eis her masterpiece: an unruly, bittersweet novella concerning the most unlikely of love triangles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The greatest prose writer that the South produced ... She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can hope to surpass' - Tennessee Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCarson McCullers\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, including \u003ci\u003eThe Member of the Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e (1946). Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. McCullers suffered from ill health most of her adult life, including a series of strokes that began when she was in her 20s; she died at the age of 50. \u003ci\u003eThe Member of the Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are \u003ci\u003eReflections in a Golden Eye\u003c\/i\u003e (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), \u003ci\u003eThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of the Sad Café\u003c\/i\u003e (1991).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 128 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65800124891485,"sku":"K096026527","price":13.1,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9602652700001A.jpg?v=1788439775","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-ballad-of-the-sad-cafe-carson-mccullers","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}