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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.
- Carson McCullers
- 1946
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A young girl named Frankie struggles to find her place in the world as she prepares for her brother's wedding in 1944. She has fantasies of running away, changing her name, and joining the newlyweds, but her plans are thwarted by reality and tragedy.
- Carson McCullers
- 1946
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.
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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.
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- Drama, Family
- Fred Zinnemann
- 1953-08-13
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
The Member of the Wedding is a novel by American author Carson McCullers that was first published in 1946. It tells the story of 12-year-old Frankie Addams, who feels like an outsider in her small Southern town and becomes obsessed with her older brother’s upcoming wedding.
