Publication
Penguin Books Ltd (1990)
Original publication date
1946 (novel)
1950 (play)
Status
Available
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Description
Drama. Fiction. Literature. HTML: Gangly, outspoken 12-year-old Frankie Addams yearns to belong to the "we of me," and in a Southern kitchen, pours her heart out to the family cook, Berenice. One of the most beautiful plays ever written about lonliness and love..
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Awards
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (1949-1950)
ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound (Fiction — 1999)
Language
Media reviews
Frankie is the pawky, gawky heroine of Carson McCullers' slim (195-page) new novel—she calls it a novella. Unlike Novelist McCullers' earlier books (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye), which were well filled with the complex, morbid relationships of adults, The Member of
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the Wedding is a serious attempt to recapture that elusive moment when childhood melts into adolescence. The result is often touching, always strictly limited by the small scope of its small characters. Like childhood, it is full of incident but devoid of a clear plot; always working its way ahead, but always doubling back on itself; two-faced, two-minded. The soiled elbows of Frankie, the brat, keep showing below the sleeves of the orange satin bridal dress which F. Jasmine Addams, Esq. wears to her older brother's wedding. Show Less