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