Reflections in a Golden Eye: Carson McCullers (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Review 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 (New York Herald-Tribune)A masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (Time) Synopsis McCullers' second novel, "Reflections in a Golden Eye", is 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. See all Product description