The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
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The Member of the Wedding

Author: Carson McCullers

Narrator: Jena Malone, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/10/2001

Synopsis

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, John Cothran Jr., Ruby Dee, Daniel Henson, Victor Mack, Jena Malone, Lawrence Pressman, Jacquelyn Riggs and Tegan West.

About Carson McCullers

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on August 27, 2017

Digital audiobook performed by Jena Malone, Ruby Dee and Victor Mack (Recording of a live performance of LA Theatreworks) Twelve-year-old Frankie Adams is bored with life and longing for adventure, for a sense of belonging to something “bigger.” When her older brother comes home on leave from the Arm......more

Goodreads review by Eric on December 11, 2016

The best play I've read in at least a few years. It's pretty much a "detail" of her novel of the same name, so on one hand it's illuminating to see such a succinct, studied distillation of the major themes of the novel. On the other hand, the novel offers so many more heartbreaking details, moments,......more

Goodreads review by Becky on October 13, 2012

This isn't the edition of the book that I have. First it's not the play, but it's the only option that doesn't include multiple novels by Carson McCullers. Mine is actually an audio book narrated by Susan Sarandon who does a masterful job of capturing the passion and emotion of the author. This is a......more

Goodreads review by stacy on January 25, 2025

Do you ever read the right thing at the right time where the story feels written for you? That its meaning is transformed by the experiences in your life at that exact moment. That on any other day its meaning might be diminished or even lost. Literature is a quiet friend that knows what we need whe......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on June 17, 2018

Beautiful, unexpectedly poignant play about two women at different ends of a continuum, but experiencing in their own way, the endless cycle of tragedy and recovery, that is all human life. Frankie is young and inexperienced while Berenice is middle-aged and has seen it all (she's even missing one e......more

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