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    "description": "<p><span>'A poet's sensibility interlocks with a novelist's muscular narrative gifts. The ballad of the Sad Caf&eacute; is an enchanting short novel&hellip; there is not a phrase too many or a word out of place &hellip; An exquisite talent and a fascinating mind' - Cyril Connolly in the Sunday Times.</span></p>\n<p><span>In the little masterpiece which gives its title to this collection a simple triangle of unrequited love is magicallytransmuted into a miniature epic with the melancholy atmosphere of a ballad. For this is the tale of Miss Amelia, gaunt and lonely owner of a small-town store; and how she squandered her love on Cousin Lymon, the little strutting hunchback who turned the store into a caf&eacute;; and how her rejected husband, Marvin Macy, the meanest man in town, came back and stole the hunchback's heart; and of the gargatuan fight that followed.</span></p>",
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