The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

by Edward Albee, Carson McCullers, Carson McCullers (Based on a book by)

Overview

A collection of McCullers best short stories about grotesque people and situations in the southern United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822200925
Publisher:	Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/1963
Edition description:	Adaptation
Pages:	79
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 1.26(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Edward Albee, best-known as the author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was one of a handful of America’s most important playwrights. He won numerous awards, including three Pulitzer Prizes (for A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women) and two Tony Awards (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance). He was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton. He died in 2016 at the age of eighty-eight.

Editorial Reviews

It is beautiful, absorbing, exciting, touching and absolutely enthralling—a notable addition to the literature of our contemporary stage.

NY Daily News

It is an engrossing evening, a salutary success for all concerned.

NY Journal-American

It is both beautiful and grotesque, a small masterpiece exquisitely written in a mysterious and strange style.

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