Reflections in a Golden Eye
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- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2008
Summary
Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a Golden Eye 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141184456 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141184450 |
| Author: | Carson McCullers |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Edition: | 08000th |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2008 |
| Weight: | 92g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Again [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men’s hearts and minds
The greatest prose writer that the South produced – Tennessee WilliamsAgain [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men’s hearts and minds * New York Herald-Tribune *A masterpiece … as mature and finished as Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw * Time *
About The Author
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers was born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and ‘50s, including The Member of the Wedding (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. The Member of the Wedding was dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books are Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968) and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991).
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