{"product_id":"the-member-of-the-wedding-von-carson-mccullers-1","title":"The Member of the Wedding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarson McCullers (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarson McCullers was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, including \u003ci\u003eThe Member of the Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e (1946). Her novels frequently depicted life in small towns of the southeastern United States and were marked by themes of loneliness and spiritual isolation. McCullers suffered from ill health most of her adult life, including a series of strokes that began when she was in her 20s; she died at the age of 50. \u003ci\u003eThe Member of the Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are \u003ci\u003eReflections in a Golden Eye\u003c\/i\u003e (1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), \u003ci\u003eThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of the Sad Caf¿i\u0026gt; (1991).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAli Smith (Introducer) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAli Smith\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eFree Love and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLike\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOther Stories and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHotel World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Whole Story and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Accidental, Girl Meets Boy, The First Person and Other Stories, There but for the, Artful\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow to be both, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePublic library and other stories. Hotel World\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize and\u003ci\u003e The Accidental\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. \u003ci\u003eHow to be both\u003c\/i\u003e won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker and the Folio Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge and her next novel, \u003ci\u003eAutumn\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming in the second half of 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780141182827\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9780141182827","offer_id":39414247227485,"sku":"9780141182827","price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/c6961321-3d8e-442f-ab0e-44e027ec7455.jpg?v=1780718487","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-member-of-the-wedding-von-carson-mccullers-1","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}