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 The Member of the Wedding and The ...

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 The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, novellas that Tennessee Williams judged to be assuredly among the masterpieces of our language. (A Mariner Reissue)

** The novelist, dramatist, and poet Carson McCullers was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction.**In nineteen stories that explore her signature themes of wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South, McCullers's novellas The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe are also included.

[These novellas are] assuredly among the masterpieces of our language, Tennesee Williams said.** The novelist, dramatist, and poet Carson McCullers was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction.**In nineteen stories that explore her signature themes of wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South, McCullers's novellas The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe are also included.

[These novellas are] assuredly among the masterpieces of our language, Tennesee Williams said.** The novelist, dramatist, and poet Carson McCullers was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction.**In nineteen stories that explore her signature themes of wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South, McCullers's novellas The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe are also included.

[These novellas are] assuredly among the masterpieces of our language, Tennesee Williams said.** The novelist, dramatist, and poet Carson McCullers was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction.** In nineteen stories that explore her signature themes of wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South, McCullers's novellas The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe are also included.

[These novellas are] assuredly among the masterpieces of our language, Tennesee Williams said.