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The Member of the Wedding is a 1946 novel by Southern writer Carson McCullers. It took McCullers five years to complete, although she interrupted the work for a few months to write the novella The Ballad of the Sad Café.
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Searing and sad, The Member of the Wedding is a deceptively simple coming-of-age tale set in the South during the midst of WWII. Frankie’s a twelve-year-old white tomboy on the cusp of thirteen who wants nothing more than to run away from her distant father and live with her soon-to-be-married brother and his partner.
The Member of the Wedding: Directed by Fred Zinnemann. With Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde, Arthur Franz. Her older brother's wedding forces preteen tomboy Frankie to face her own immaturity.
The Member of the Wedding, novel by Carson McCullers, published in 1946. It depicts the inner life of a lonely person, in this case 12-year-old Frankie Addams, a Georgia tomboy who imagines that she will be taken by the bride and groom (her brother) on their honeymoon.
Aug 13, 2004 · From the master of Southern Gothic, Carson McCullers's coming-of-age story like no other about a young girl's fascination with her brother's wedding. Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother’s wedding.
- Carson McCullers
Aug 13, 2004 · An imaginative twelve-year-old Georgia tomboy is jealous of her brother’s upcoming wedding in this classic Southern novel. Carson McCullers’s classic The Member of the Wedding charmed generations of readers and became an award-winning play and a major motion picture.
- Carson McCullers
