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The Member of the Wedding
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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The Member of the Wedding
Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.
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Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed – The New York Times
With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding.
Through a perilous skylight, we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away.
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The Member of the Wedding is praised for its exploration of a young girl's emotional turmoil and vivid imagination in a Southern setting. Reviewers highlight McCullers' delicate portrayal of emotional depth and complexity, lauding her as an exceptional Southern prose writer with profound insight into human nature.
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ISBN: 9780141182827
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 April 2001
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Introduction by Ali Smith
- Introduction by Ali Smith
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 170g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Carson McCullers was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, including The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. McCullers suffered from ill health most of her adult life, including a series of strokes that began when she was in her 20s; she died at the age of 50. The Member of the Wedding was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991).
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