"[McCullers] has never done anything better than this." - Washington Times-Herald "McCullers's best. An unusual story of a very sensitive child . [that] holds you by the very brilliance of its writing." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A serious attempt to recapture that elusive moment when childhood melts into adolescence . touching." - Time "Entirely winning.Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed.

" - New York Times "There is an almost perfect harmony between the them of this book ad the prose in which it is expressed, for the prose is lyrical and sensitive and always fresh." - Chicago Tribune [The Member of the Wedding] is poignantly and arresting, amazingly perceptive and exquisitely wrought." - Boston Herald.