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Reflections in a Golden Eye: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor Carson McCullers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mar 2001
'A masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw'Time

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 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
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ISBN-13: 9780141184456
ISBN-10: 0141184450
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Ediția:New edition.
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Carson McCullerswas born in 1917. She is the critically acclaimed author of several popular novels in the 1940s and '50s, includingThe 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 Weddingwas dramatized for the stage in the 1950s and filmed in 1952 and 1997. Other films based on her books areReflections in a Golden Eye(1967, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando),The Heart is a Lonely Hunter(1968, starring Alan Arkin) andThe Ballad of the Sad Café(1991).

Recenzii

The greatest prose writer that the South produced
Again [McCullers] shows a sort of subterranean and ageless instinct for probing the hidden in men's hearts and minds
A masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James'sThe Turn of the Screw