COLLECTED STORIES OF CARSON MCCULLERS

Carson McCullers--novelist, dramatist, poet--was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction. Here are nineteen stories t hat explore her signature themes: wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South. Here too ar e The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, novellas that Tennessee Williams judged to be assuredly among the maste rpieces of our language.