The Ballad of the Sad CaféIntroducing 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. Few 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. The Ballad of the Sad Caf is her masterpiecean unruly, bittersweet novella concerning