The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers’s classic The Member of the Wedding is now available in small- format trade paperback for the first time. Here is the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother’s wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her house servant, Berenice, and her six-year-old male cousin — not to mention her own unbridled imagination — Frankie takes on an overly active role in the wedding, hoping even to go, uninvited, on the honeymoon, so deep is her desire to be the member of something larger, more accepting than herself. “A marvelous study of the agony of adolescence” (Detroit Free Press), The Member of the Wedding showcases Carson McCullers at her most sensitive, astute, and lasting best.
Carson McCullers was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, including The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. McCullers suffered from ill health most of her adult life, including a series of strokes that began when she was in her 20s; she died at the age of 50. The Member of the Wedding was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Café (1991).
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Vendeur : Monkey House Books, Miller Place, NY, Etats-Unis
Etat : Very Good. Story of 12-year-old Frankie Addams and the emotional turbulence of her young life. 153 pages, wear to front cover. Softcover, mass market paperback. N° de réf. du vendeur 11702
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Vendeur : Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Etats-Unis
Etat : Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 16876256-20
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Vendeur : Bookman Books, Lynchburg, VA, Etats-Unis
Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. N° de réf. du vendeur 010198
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Vendeur : Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, Etats-Unis
Etat : Good. Good condition. (Teenage Girls, Weddings, Domestic Fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. N° de réf. du vendeur N00OS-00108
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Vendeur : A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, Etats-Unis
Mass Market PaperBack. Etat : Good. Reprint. Mass market reprint with creases and moderate wear. Previous dealer's LARGE stamp first inside page. [153 pages]. N° de réf. du vendeur 282735
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