The member of the wedding : a play /
A story of black and white in the American South with Berenice Sadie Brown, a black cook who mothers the motherless Frankie Addams, a lonely over-imaginative Georgia girl
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| Language: | English |
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| Series: | New Directions paperbook ;
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| Summary: | A story of black and white in the American South with Berenice Sadie Brown, a black cook who mothers the motherless Frankie Addams, a lonely over-imaginative Georgia girl Her brother's wedding intensifies a twelve-year-old's need to be recognized as an important person 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 Twelve-year-old Frankie cannot understand why everyone disapproves of her idea of going on her brother's honeymoon "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 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."--Publisher's website |
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| Item Description: | Based on the author's novel of the same title Issued with various printing dates List of author's works on preliminary leaf Originally published: New York : New Directions, 1951 This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC "'The Member of the Wedding' was first produced in New York on January 5, 1950 at the Empire Theatre by Robert Whitehead, Oliver Rea and Stanley Martineau ..." "A New Directions book." |
| Physical Description: | 10 unnumbered pages, 118 pages ; 21 cm 117 p. ; 21 cm 118 p front. 21 cm. 118 p 20 cm. 118 p. : front. ; 21 cm 118 p. ; 21 cm 118 pages : frontispiece ; 21 cm 118 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm xiii, 118 p. ; 21 cm xiii, 118 pages ; 21 cm Also issued online |
| Awards: | "Winner of both the N.Y. Drama Critics and Donaldson awards."--Cover |
| ISBN: | 0811200930 : 0811200930 0811216551 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 0811216551 1435281438 9780811200936 9780811216555 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 9780811216555 9781435281431 |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- New York (State) |