The Member of the Wedding - Hardcover

McCullers, Carson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395079810 ISBN 13: 9780395079812

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1946

Synopsis

Boston 1946. 8vo., 195pp., yellow cloth. Good, head of spine lightly worn, yellow cloth soiled, no DJ.

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Review:

Twelve-year-old Frankie Adams, longing at once for escape and belonging, takes her role as "member of the wedding" to mean that when her older brother marries she will join the happy couple in their new life together. But Frankie is unlucky in love; her mother is dead, and Frankie narrowly escapes being raped by a drunken soldier during a farewell tour of the town. Worst of all, "member of the wedding" doesn't mean what she thinks. A gorgeous, brief coming-of-age novel.

From the Publisher:

When she was only twenty-three Carson McCuller's first novel The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, created a literary sensation. She is very special, once of American's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition.

"Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed," said The New York Times of Carson McCullers's achingly real novel about Frankie Addams, a bored twelve-year-old madly jealous of her brother's impending marriage. Frankie was afraid of the dark and envious of the older girls. But as F. Jasmine, in a pink dress, she looked sixteen. No longer a child, she accepted a date with a red-haired soldier and purchased a sophisticated gown for the wedding. F. Jasmine had plans.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1946
• ISBN 10: 0395079810
• ISBN 13: 9780395079812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 153