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The Member of the Wedding : A Play


Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: At the suggestion of her friend Tennessee Williams, Southern writer Carson McCullers adapted her novella The Member of the Wedding into a touching and poignant play that was an enormous success when it opened on Broadway in 1950, and has long since become a classic of the American theater.

With compassion, veracity and wit, in The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers depicts the intrinsically enmeshed lives of whites and blacks in the American South. Julie Harris became a star playing the awkward, twelve-year-old tomboy Frankie Adams, who falls deeply in love with her older brother and his fiancé. Exhilarated by her naïve conviction that being a member of their wedding means she will become what she calls the "we of me," Frankie is devastated when she learns she is not invited on the honeymoon. Bernice Sadie Brown, who has experienced a lifetime of love and loss, is a surrogate mother for Frankie. Portrayed on stage and in the film versions by the great Ethel Waters, Bernice is an epic character, fiercely loyal, down-to-earth, and centered by deep faith.

Author(s): Carson McCullers  

ISBN 10: 0811216551
ISBN 13: 9780811216555
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Publication: May 2006
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2. A tree, a rock, a cloud Hardcover (1992/12/01)
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4. Ballad of the Sad Cafe Hardcover (1982/06/01)
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6. Ballad of the Sad Cafe Paperbound (1991/01/01)
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8. Carson McCullers: Complete Novels (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The Member of the Wedding, Clock Without Hands) (Library of America) Hardcover (October 2001)
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