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unusual facts about The Ballad of the Sad Café


Carson McCullers

The novella The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951) depicts loneliness and the pain of unrequited love; at the time of its writing, McCullers was a resident at Yaddo, the artists' colony in Saratoga, New York.



see also

Sad Café

The Ballad of the Sad Café, a 1951 collection of short stories by Carson McCullers, which includes a novella, also called The Ballad of the Sad Cafe