New Releases by Carson McCullers

A transient stops at an all-night cafe and explains to the owner and a paperboy how the science of love helped him to recover after his wife left him.

THE STORY: Amelia, the proprietor of the Sad Cafe, throws her new husband out of their bedroom on their wedding night. Torn between anger and desire the husband finally leaves town only to return some years later to find Amelia showering all her af

"This particular hell is an Army post in the South. Its inhabitants: a sexually disturbed author; his sensual animal of a wife; his fellow-officer and wife''s lover; a delicate, sensitive woman who must live with her husband''s infidelity; and the driven young Private who brings the searing drama to a head. From these elements, one of America''s superlative writers has produced a vision of existance as terrible as it is real-- a shattering voyage into the depths of human hatred and desire." -- Back cover.

"A quirky Southern family is plagued by mental illness, infidelity and violence born out of naïveté."--