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The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers
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Description for The Member of the Wedding
Paperback. Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
'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.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141182827
SKU
V9780141182827
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About Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers (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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Member of the Wedding
Entirely winning ... A probing novel about a youngster with an unlimited gift for creating fantasies in a Southern town ... Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed
The New York Times
The greatest prose writer that the South produced ... She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can ... Read more
The New York Times
The greatest prose writer that the South produced ... She has examined the heart of man with an understanding that no other writer can ... Read more