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Reflections In A Golden Eye
by Carson McCullers
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About This Item
London: The Cresset Press, 1942. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo. First UK edition of this highly regarded US novel. Stock a little toned, but otherwise in good internal order. Occasional pencil notation. Small nick to bottom of half title and title pages (see photos). Former owner's neat signature to front pastedown. Pink cloth a little marked, lightly worn to edges and faded to spine. 12mo. 121pp
Synopsis
A new trade paperback edition of McCullers' second novel, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and John Houston. 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. 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, her second novel deals with her trademark themes of alienation and unfulfilled loves.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Journobooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009048
- Title
- Reflections In A Golden Eye
- Author
- Carson McCullers
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity-available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Cresset Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1942
- Pages
- 121
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo
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My original speciality was books about journalism, journalists, newspapers and other media (hence the name) and I still have a good stock of hard-to-find books in that field. Over time I have added a wide and eclectic variety of other collectible volumes alongside a general secondhand stock. I am a collector as well as a seller so know all about the pitfalls of online buying as well as the joys. i wiil try to make your buying experience as easy and as pleasant as possible.
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