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Frankie's brother, jarvis, is about to get married. Frankie decides to run away with her brother and his new bride after the wedding. She believes jarvis and his bride-to-be are frankie's we of me.
Berenice is a young woman who yearns to escape her dull life. She meets a drunken soldier and becomes obsessed with him. Her loneliness is palpable to the reader.
Carson mccullers is a master at conveying the loneliness of that search, and the loneliness within all of us. Carson mccullers writes almost with artistic persicion on her two most elaborate characters. Flannery o'connor seems to have some crazy sense... Read More
Carson mccullers' the member of the wedding is about a 12-year-old girl living in the south. Frankie addams had a precursor in the heart is a lonely hunter in the person of * kelly, another tomboyish pre-adolescent girl with a weird masculine nickname... Read More
Frankie is a pre-teen, an awkward age, and she is feeling the melancholy of being stuck in neutral waiting for something to happen in her life.
Cons
Hannibal' is a god-awful book, and it still doesn't approach the level of putridity reached by this claptrap. The perversity often pops up in a disjointed way that adds nothing to the book's power.
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Quality
The pure magic that mccullers creates with the written word makes this worth 4 stars right off the get go
Frankie is naturally invited to the ceremony along with the rest of her family but somehow thats not enough
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Thanks for the great book and fast shipping
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Another powerfully written book reflecting the inner life of a southern family in the 1939s
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- This product had a total of 426 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 4 2022.
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It almost reads like a lost section of the heart is a lonely hunter
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An excellent highly affecting novel
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Moving story of young girl growing up in the south and dealing with disappointment and loss
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I had heard that this book is taught at princeton by tony morrison so i was a little concerned when i put it on our summer family reading list that it might be over the heads of my kids and me for that matter
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Yet another masterpiece that the general public or should i say sheeple just doesnt get
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It goes beyond a coming of age book
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The novel zeroes in on frankie’s inner turmoil and exploration of these two boundaries
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This is in stark contrast to the movie that was made out of this book
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