The Member of the Wedding
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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.
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Paw Prints
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2008
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1435290755 9781435290754
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"I felt like I was being read by this book - a fracture of my girlhood left behind and analyzed. Another work that explores the brutal nature of the young and of being young. To fall in love with a wedding… to be carried away by dreams of elsewhere and not care if you happened to kill a man. The emptiness and the distraught nature of finding yourself in a group that is not how you would characterize yourself, but finding these individuals all that care for you. Wildly wanting to be important while demeaning those who value you most. And in the end, moving on as if you didn’t hurt anyone, leastways yourself - and John Henry dead."
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Abigail Spradlin