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Reflections in a Golden Eye

Door Carson McCullers

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#346297-XJ5
Titel
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Auteur
McCullers, Carson
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin
Jaar van uitgave
2018
ISBN10
0141184450
ISBN13
9780141184456
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, this novel 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.

'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 han
... (Lees verder)ds, 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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