The Member of the WeddingThe 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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Nutzerbericht - IonaS - LibraryThingThis book tells the story of a 12-year-old girl, Frankie, and how she spends one particular summer. “She feels alone and isolated.” “She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Nutzerbericht - Derezzination - LibraryThingA peculiar novel that has a hot and sticky second half which is book-ended by sides that burn like cement under the noon sun, they glitter like glass. Vollständige Rezension lesen
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Addams afternoon ain’t alley answer arbor asked Berenice began Berenice’s Big Mama Blue Moon booth bride brother CARSON McCULLERS certainy colored corner crazy crazy summer dark door dotted Swiss dress ears Evelyn Owen eyes face father feel finally Frances Frankie’s Freak Front Avenue girl glass gone gray hand happened head heard heart Honey jail Jarvis Jasmine asked Jasmine’s John Henry West kitchen table knew knife light listen looked marry Milledgeville mind minute monkey monkey-man morning never night o’clock old Frankie organdie queer quiet Sears and Roebuck seemed shiver sidewalk silence slowly smell soldier sound stared stood stopped street sudden suddenly suitcase summer sweet band talk tell thing thought told town tune Uncle Charles voice voice crossed walked wall wanted watched wedding window Winter Hill words
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Seite 4 - This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person who hung around in doorways, and she was afraid.
Seite 7 - They sat together in the kitchen, and the kitchen was a sad and ugly room. John Henry had covered the walls with queer, child drawings, as far up as his arm would reach. This gave the kitchen a crazy look, like that of a room in the crazy-house. And now the old kitchen made Frankie sick. The name for what had happened to her Frankie did not know, but she could feel her squeezed heart beating against the table edge. "The world is certainy a small place," she said. "What makes you say that?
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Member of the Wedding |
| Autor | Carson McCullers |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0547346336, 9780547346335 |
| Länge | 176 Seiten |
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