The Member of the Wedding : The Play - Softcover

McCullers, Carson; Dorothy Allison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811200930 ISBN 13: 9780811200936

Publisher: New Directions Publishing, 1951

Synopsis

Poignantly portrays the loneliness, fears and sufferings of a motherless child who is cared for by a black cook

About this title

Review:

"This is the type of novel that is open to interpretation and students will gain a better understanding from reading all of the discussion. Doctorow is quoted in several chapters. Students looking for criticism and analysis of literary works will find it easy to use this title rather than searching endlessly for the journals in which these articles may have originally appeared. A valuable resource for literature collections."

About the Author:

Carson McCullers (1917-1967) was the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Clock Without Hands. Born in Columbus, Georgia, on February 19, 1917, she became a promising pianist and enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York when she was seventeen, but lacking money for tuition, she never attended classes. Instead she studied writing at Columbia University, which ultimately led to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, the novel that made her an overnight literary sensation. On September 29, 1967, at age fifty, she died in Nyack, New York, where she is buried.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing
• Publication date: 1951
• ISBN 10: 0811200930
• ISBN 13: 9780811200936
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118