The Member of the Wedding: The Play (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811216555)

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 fiance. Exhilarated by her naive 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: Carson McCullers
ISBN-10: 0811216551
ISBN-13: 9780811216555
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 05/24/2006
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.30w x 0.39d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 539 / Member of the Wedding


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2006 pg. 133