Word: novella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frankie is the pawky, gawky heroine of Carson McCullers' slim (195-page) new novel-she calls it a novella. Unlike Novelist McCullers' earlier books (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye), which were well filled with the complex, morbid relationships of adults, The Member of the Wedding is a serious attempt to recapture that elusive moment when childhood melts into adolescence. The result is often touching, always strictly limited by the small scope of its small characters. Like childhood, it is full of incident but devoid of a clear plot; always working...
...Pilgrim Hawk is as good as anyone need hope. It is a superbly turned specimen of that long-short form which Story Editor Whit Burnett likes to call The Novella. "Simple" only in profile and in the manner of its telling, the tale has symbolic and psychological structures that are no simpler than the internal cross-flickerings of a poem...