- Loneliness in adolescence in fiction, Teenage girls, Girls in fiction, Loneliness in adolescence
Frankie Addams, a motherless twelve-year-old raised by her father and the family's African-American cook, struggles with conflicting feelings about her brother's upcoming wedding.
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Earnest, contemplative, intimate and grave.
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Carson McCullers
- First published
- April 26, 2001
- Pages
- 184
- Publisher
- Heinemann Educ., Perfection Learning Prebound, Time
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780886462116
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“IT HAPPENED THAT green and crazy summer when Frankie was twelve years old.”
Carson McCullers was an American writer. She wrote novels, short stories, and two plays, as well as essays and some poetry. Her first novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts of the South. Her other novels have similar themes and are all set in the South. Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_McCullers
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