The Member of the Wedding
Author: McCullers, Carson
ISBN: 9780141182827
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 11mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away.
ISBN: 9780141182827
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 11mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away.
