The Member of the Wedding

When she was only twenty-three Carson McCuller's first novel <i>The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter</i>, created a literary sensation. She is very special, once of American's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition.<br><br><br><br>&quot;Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed,&quot; said <i>The New York Times</i> of Carson McCullers's achingly real novel about Frankie Addams, a bored twelve-year-old madly jealous of her brother's impending marriage. Frankie was afraid of the dark and envious of the older girls. But as F. Jasmine, in a pink dress, she looked sixteen. No longer a child, she accepted a date with a red-haired soldier and purchased a sophisticated gown for the wedding. F. Jasmine had plans.