The Member of the Wedding

Jacket Description/Flap: Gangly, outspoken 12-year-old Frankie Addams yearns to belong to the "we of me," and in a Southern kitchen, pours her heart out to the family cook, Berenice. One of the most beautiful plays ever written about loneliness and love. An L. A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: June Angela as Janice and Helen John Cothran Jr. as T. T. Williams Ruby Dee as Bernice Sadie Brown Daniel Henson as John Henry West Victor Mack as Honey Camden Brown Jena Malone as Frankie Addams Lawrence Pressman as Mr. Addams Jacquelyn Riggs as Mrs. West and Doris Tegan West as Jarvis and Barney MacKean Directed by Judyann Elder. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. Publisher Marketing: The best way to experience this classic of the American South is by joining five-time Academy Award nominee and Best Actress winner Susan Sarandon ("Dead Man Walking," "Thelma & Louise") as she guides the listener on a journey through the anguish of adolescence and isolation. "Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed," said "The New York Times" of Carson McCullers' sensitive portrayal of Frankie Addams, a disconnected 12-year-old whose only friends are her family s maid and a six-year-old cousin. Desperate to be part of something big, she takes an overlarge interest in her brother s wedding and dreams of following the couple on their honeymoon to the Alaskan wilderness. But as Frankie crosses into adulthood, she experiences the fantasy-shattering disillusionment that must come with it. This is a story for anybody who s ever felt like an outsider and a natural fit for Ms. Sarandon, a master at creating authentic, sympathetic characters. "The Member of the Wedding" is part of Audible s A-List Collection, featuring the world s most celebrated actors narrating distinguished works of literature that each star had a hand in selecting." Review Citations:

Newsweek 12/03/2007 pg. 20 (EAN 9780618492398, Paperback)

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People Weekly 08/25/2008 pg. 45 (EAN 9780618492398, Paperback)

Newsweek 03/23/2009 pg. 14 (EAN 9780618492398, Paperback)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 579 (EAN 9780618492398, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 1006 (EAN 9780618492398, Paperback)

Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2014 pg. 23 (EAN 9780618492398, Paperback)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 686 (EAN 9780618492398, Paperback)

Entertainment Weekly 03/16/2012 pg. 73 (EAN 9781580812214, Compact Disc)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1993 pg. 620 (EAN 9780811200936, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1992 pg. 707 (EAN 9780811200936, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1997 pg. 361 (EAN 9780811200936, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 592 (EAN 9780811200936, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 352 (EAN 9780811200936, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 620 (EAN 9780811200936, Paperback)

Booklist 06/01/1993 pg. 1864 (EAN 9780553250510, Mass Market Paperbound)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 626 (EAN 9780553250510, Mass Market Paperbound)

Booklist 06/01/1993 pg. 1864 (EAN 9780606010603, Prebound-Other)

New Yorker (The) 12/03/2001 pg. 94 (EAN 9780606010603, Prebound-Other)

Contributor Bio:  McCullers, Carson 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.