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Reflections in a Golden Eye
by McCullers, Carson. (Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Company. Riverside Press, 1941. Hardcover. 183 pages. Elizabeth Bruce Hartwick was a literary critic, novelist and short story writer. She was married to Robert Lowell for over 20 years. She and others formed the New York Review of Books. Later printing. Elizabeth Bruce Hartwick's copy with her signature on bookplate on front free pastedown. Interesting association copy. A good copy in gray and white cloth covers with yellow and black lettering on front cover. Covers are soiled and there is edge and corner wear. Spine edges are beginning to fray. Front cover of dust jacket is pasted to front pastedown and rear cover flap is pasted to rear pastedown.
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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- Bookseller
- Eureka Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 264752
- Title
- Reflections in a Golden Eye
- Author
- McCullers, Carson. (Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company. Riverside Press
- Date Published
- 1941
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About Eureka Books
Eureka Books, established in 1987, is a classic antiquarian shop with books in all subjects and price ranges. We're open Monday - Saturday in Old Town Eureka, California.
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- Bookplate
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- Soiled
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- Spine
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- New
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- Cloth
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- Association Copy
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