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The Member of the Wedding is a 1946 novel by Southern writer Carson McCullers. It took McCullers five years to complete, although she interrupted the work for a few months to write the short novel The Ballad of the Sad Café.McDowell, Margaret B. Read More..

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Description	The Member of the Wedding is a 1946 novel by Southern writer Carson McCullers. It took McCullers five years to complete, although she interrupted the work for a few months to write the short novel The Ballad of the Sad Café.McDowell, Margaret B. Carson McCullers, Boston, 1980.In a salacious letter to her husband Reeves McCullers, she explained that the novel was "one of those works that the least slip can ruin. It must be beautifully done. For like a poem there is not much excuse for it otherwise."quoted in Carson McCullers: A Life, Josyane Savigneau, London, 2001.She originally planned to write a story about a girl who is in love with her piano teacher, but she had what she called "a divine spark: "Suddenly I said: Frankie is in love with her brother and the bride.... The illumination focused the whole book."Letter to Tennessee Williams, quoted by Josyane Savigneau,Carson McCullers: A Life.
Description	The Member of the Wedding is a 1946 novel by Southern writer Carson McCullers. It took McCullers five years to complete, although she interrupted the work for a few months to write the short novel The Ballad of the Sad Café.McDowell, Margaret B. Carson McCullers, Boston, 1980.In a salacious letter to her husband Reeves McCullers, she explained that the novel was "one of those works that the least slip can ruin. It must be beautifully done. For like a poem there is not much excuse for it otherwise."quoted in Carson McCullers: A Life, Josyane Savigneau, London, 2001.She originally planned to write a story about a girl who is in love with her piano teacher, but she had what she called "a divine spark: "Suddenly I said: Frankie is in love with her brother and the bride.... The illumination focused the whole book."Letter to Tennessee Williams, quoted by Josyane Savigneau,Carson McCullers: A Life.

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Name	The Member of the Wedding
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Authors	Carson McCullers
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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Pages	176 pp (paperback)
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Media_type	Print
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Oclc	57134632
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Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Company
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Pub_date	1946
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Release_date	1946
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