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Reflections in a Golden Eye

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#346297
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 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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