Carson McCullers
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| Original Title: | The Member of the Wedding |
| ISBN: | 0618492399 (ISBN13: 9780618492398) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Georgia(United States) |
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An alternate-cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding is now available in small-format trade paperback for the first time. Here is the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother's wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her house servant, Berenice, and her six-year-old male cousin—not to mention her own unbridled imagination—Frankie takes on an overly active role in the wedding, hoping even to go, uninvited, on the honeymoon, so deep is her desire to be the member of something larger, more accepting than herself. "A marvelous study of the agony of adolescence" (Detroit Free Press), The Member of the Wedding showcases Carson McCullers at her most sensitive, astute, and lasting best.
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| Title | : | The Member of the Wedding |
| Author | : | Carson McCullers |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 163 pages |
| Published | : | August 13th 2004 by Mariner Books (first published 1946) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Novels. American. Southern |
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Ratings: 3.81 From 14376 Users | 1177 ReviewsDiscuss Containing Books The Member of the Wedding
I came across this passage about The Member of the Wedding in McCullers' collection of stories and writings, The Mortgaged Heart. She writes:Consciouness of self is the first abstract problem that the human being solves. Indeed, it is this self-consciousness that removes us from lower animals. This primitive grasp of identity develops with constantly shifting emphasis through all our years. Perhaps maturity is simply the history of those mutations that reveal to the individual the relationCarson McCuller's The Member of the Wedding is my unrequited love story in my stable of hos: those lyrically intimate classical works I've read that stayed with me because they were confiders of sorts, someones I could go to and find some sort of explanation inside, a relating that was more than good enough of itself. (And I get my belt when they don't put out for me.) (I don't wanna say cathartic because this book isn't like that. It's often uncomfortably painful in the
Enjoyed:--WWII time period--Berenice, the black housekeeper who is a storyteller and surrogate mother to the adolescent protagonist--Descriptions of Southern food (eaten in kitchen, where much of the action transpires)--The threesome of the adult female black housekeeper, the adolescent girl, and the six-year-old boy cousin, as a group--brevity of bookWarmed up to:--Slow pace of book, which was more difficult in the early part of the book--Southern milieu (which can be good or bad -- depends on
I absolutely loved this book right up until Part III, which is very short, a kind of addendum added onto the main story. And I thought - no: that is overkill - overkill being the apposite word. It's as if the talented Ms McCullers couldn't rest with the story just as it was - she had to make it into a rip-your-heart-out climatic ending. Maybe some people like that?So, the delightful, superb, so beautiful middle section is quite simply the three main characters: Frankie, or F. Jasmine as she
The pure magic that McCullers creates with the written word makes this worth 4 stars right off the get go. She gives us the character of Frankie or F. Jasmine who is so ready to leave 12 years behind and move forward that she is a bundle of nerves and dreams. She doesn't feel like she fits in her skin any more and is so anxious to shed it and find out who she is suppose to be. That terrible angst of adolescence, the feeling that you are suppose to be doing something else, while not quite sure
I was drawn to this story of 12-year-old Frankie, who is restless and fearful and jealous of anyone who is happy, because she is such a jumble of adolescent angst. "This was the summer when Frankie was sick and tired of being Frankie. She hated herself, and had become a loafer and a big no-good who hung around the summer kitchen ... The war and the world were too fast and big and strange. To think about the world for very long made her afraid. She was not afraid of Germans or bombs or Japanese.
A strange little book. Not really my cup of tea. Twelve year old girl desperately wanted to be grown up. Except when she doesn't.Great cover by the way. And my secondhand copy is stamped "Wormwood Scrubs Education Department", so I would like to believe that my copy has been read by Ian Brady, Pete Doherty and Keith Richards
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