Reflections In a Golden Eye (Twentieth Century Classics) - Softcover

Carson-mccullers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140181350 ISBN 13: 9780140181357

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1990

Synopsis

The interlocking patterns of five people's dreams, obsessions and failures are woven into Carson McCullers' novel of life in a peace-time army camp. The author also wrote "The Heart is a Lonely hunter", "The Member of the Wedding" and "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe".

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About the Author

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, with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968, starring Alan Arkin) and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991).

Review

Novel by Carson Mccullers, published in 1941. Set in the 1930s on a Southern army base, the novel concerns the relationships between self-destructive misfits whose lives end in tragedy and murder. The cast of characters includes Captain Penderton, a sadomasochistic, latent homosexual officer; his wife, who is having an affair with Major Langdon; the major's wife, who responds to the trauma of her son's death with self-mutilation; Anacleto, a homosexual servant who is befriended by the major's wife; and an army private who engages in voyeurism. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140181350
• ISBN 13: 9780140181357
• Binding: Paperback