Word: ballade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ambush and pursuit by the lynch mob, the shooting of one deputy, the treachery of another, the loss of his horse, a desert sandstorm and a three-day spell of thirst and sleeplessness. Worst of all, he is sorely tormented by his prisoner's sadistic singing of a ballad that summons up the marshal's old guilt complex over the death of his father...
...Ballad of the Sad Cafe, by Car son McCullers. A novelette, half a dozen short stories and three novels in an impressive omnibus (TIME, June...
...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (791 pp.) -Carson McCullers-Houghton Mifilin...
...McCullers has the pleasure of seeing a fat volume of her collected works: the three novels, six middling stories, and a superb novelette that serves as a title piece, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. Taken together, the 791 pages pretty well establish Novelist McCullers as one of the top dozen among contemporary U.S. writers...
...writing is part of the American tradition of mooning, the tradition represented by Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill sometimes, and, at his rare best, William Saroyan. She can be soft and soupy, but at top form, as in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Carson McCullers has sharp sight, warm tenderness...