The Member Of The Wedding
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set in a sweltering Georgia town during the summer of 1944, The Member of the Wedding chronicles the restless inner world of twelve-year-old Frankie Addams, a girl consumed by a desperate longing to belong — to something, to someone, to anywhere but the suffocating smallness of her own life. When her brother announces his upcoming wedding, Frankie becomes irrationally, achingly convinced that she will join the newlyweds and escape into a wider world, and Carson McCullers renders this singular obsession with startling psychological precision. The novel unfolds largely around a kitchen table, in conversations between Frankie, her six-year-old cousin John Henry, and the family's Black housekeeper Berenice — a trio whose exchanges crackle with wisdom, innocence, and sorrow in equal measure. McCullers writes in a mode that is at once deeply Southern Gothic and universally human, capturing the excruciating in-between state of adolescence — neither child nor adult, neither belonging nor free — with an empathy that has earned the novel its place among the great American coming-of-age stories. Her prose is lyrical yet unsentimental, and the novel's emotional power lies not in dramatic plot turns but in the quiet devastation of realising that the world will not reshape itself to fit one's longing. First published in 1946, The Member of the Wedding remains a haunting meditation on identity, isolation, and the irreversible passage of time — one that lingers long after the last page is turned.
Author: Carson Mccullers
Format: Paperback
Published: 1964, Penguin
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set in a sweltering Georgia town during the summer of 1944, The Member of the Wedding chronicles the restless inner world of twelve-year-old Frankie Addams, a girl consumed by a desperate longing to belong — to something, to someone, to anywhere but the suffocating smallness of her own life. When her brother announces his upcoming wedding, Frankie becomes irrationally, achingly convinced that she will join the newlyweds and escape into a wider world, and Carson McCullers renders this singular obsession with startling psychological precision. The novel unfolds largely around a kitchen table, in conversations between Frankie, her six-year-old cousin John Henry, and the family's Black housekeeper Berenice — a trio whose exchanges crackle with wisdom, innocence, and sorrow in equal measure. McCullers writes in a mode that is at once deeply Southern Gothic and universally human, capturing the excruciating in-between state of adolescence — neither child nor adult, neither belonging nor free — with an empathy that has earned the novel its place among the great American coming-of-age stories. Her prose is lyrical yet unsentimental, and the novel's emotional power lies not in dramatic plot turns but in the quiet devastation of realising that the world will not reshape itself to fit one's longing. First published in 1946, The Member of the Wedding remains a haunting meditation on identity, isolation, and the irreversible passage of time — one that lingers long after the last page is turned.