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Reflections in a Golden Eye
Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Upon the novel's publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject matter. But a critic for Time Magazine wrote, "In almost any hands, such material would yield a rank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase." Written during a time when McCullers's own marriage to Reeves was on the brink of collapse, her second novel deals with her trademark themes of alienation and unfulfilled loves.
Book Details
- Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
- Publish Date: Sep 8th, 2000
- Pages: 144
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.27in - 5.54in - 0.39in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9780618084753
- Categories: • Classics• Literary• LGBTQ+ - General
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Praise for this book
"The greatest prose writer that the South produced" -- Tennessee Williams
"Again [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men's hearts and minds."
The New York Herald-Tribune
"The novel is a masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's THE TURN OF THE SCREW." Time Magazine --
What people are saying
Books! Recommended over the tweets.
Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers http://t.co/d0fA6wcb8t
Passionate about the #Arts and #Digital #Culture. Interests: #Art #Film #History #Literature #Philosophy #Tech
"Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known." 📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 14 Feb 1941, #CarsonMcCullers' novel REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE was first published as a book by Houghton Mifflin. Serialized in Harper's Bazaar 1940. https://t.co/eoIx9gBZDW