Reflections in a Golden Eye

Sep 9, 2025 11:55 PM

Author:Carson McCullers

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.

Reviews

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

A tale of frustrated dreams and dreams come true, embodying all the perverse charm of what time, implacably, has swept away ... Don't pass it by

—— El Mundo

A literary cocktail that mixes adventure, espionage, glamour, aristocracy and passion

—— La Vanguardia

A magnificent novel that flawlessly brings together history and intrigue. Sira Quiroga - the seamstress - won't be easily forgotten

—— Juan Gómez-Jurado, author of , The Moses Expedition

A fun romp

—— Good Housekeeping

Devour it

—— Marie Claire

First-rate fiction . . . sharp, with great empathy

—— San Francisco Weekly

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