“On the second floor there is one window which is not boarded: sometimes in the late afternoon when the heat is at its worst a hand will slowly open the shutter and a face will look down on the town.
There is an old building in a sleepy little Southern town. Curiosity was rewarded for The Ballad of the Sad Café is a fine and sensitive piece of writing. We put it in our list of best titles, someplace between For Whom the Bell Tolls and Joe, The Wounded Tennis Player. It is further acknowledged that we dipped into this one because of the title.Īnyone who can contrive a title as interesting as The Ballad of the Sad Cafe deserves a special prize. Sun, Sep 16, 1951: Since we do not attempt to make a living by writing about books, fortunate circumstance, it may be confessed that we have previously read nothing by Carson McCullers.An original 1951 review of Ballad of the Sad Caféįrom The Daily Plainsman (Huron, South Dakota) The original review from when the book came out in 1951 concerns itself only with the title story: “Wunderkind”, “The Jockey”, “Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland”, “The Sojourner”, “A Domestic Dilemma” and “A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud”. In later editions, the title novella is presented with six short stories: The original book included, in addition to the title novella, Carson’s now-classic Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Member of the Wedding, and even the heftier novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullerswas first published in 1951.
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