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 Member of the Wedding, the - Carson McCullers
Description: ISBN 0141182822 / Author: Carson McCullers / Genre: Fiction / With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers ... more  Member of the Wedding, the - 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, Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding.Newest Review: ... Frankie's father, always close to Frankie, now feels that she is moving away from him and he finds it hard to handle her. ... more ...
Frankie spends much of her time with the family servant, Berenice, who loves Frankie like a daughter, although Frankie often belittles her, and John Henry, a small cousin. On the verge of womanhood, she struggles to cope with the burgeoning feelings inside of her; the feeling that she doesn't belong where she is, but yet has no idea where it is that she should go.
The one thing that I couldn't really get to grips with in this book was Frankie herself. There was something about her, bearing in mind that this book w...more |
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Format: paperback (B format), Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, ISBN:
Pages: 240, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Penguin Classics - Books/ ... |
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Member of the Wedding, the - Carson McCullers: The fantasy life of a pre-teen (840 words)
by sunmeilan - written on 04.12.06 (Very useful, 151 readings)
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Carson McCullers is probably best known for her books The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and The Ballad of the Sad Café, both of which I have read in the past. I read them so long ago that I can't remember the stories, but I do remember being impressed, which is why I picked this book up. Carson McCullers has an interesting background. By the age of 31, she had suffered from a series of strokes and was completely paralysed down one side of the body. For years, she could only use one finger to type, yet she managed to make a successful career out of writing. This story is about the life of a 12 year old girl, Frankie, whose brother is about to get married. Strangely ...
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