With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding
Analysis
Teenage girls
Notes
Originally published: Boston : Houghton, 1946; London : Cresset, 1947