A new trade paperback edition of McCullers second novel REFLECTIONS IN AGOLDEN EYE immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor MarlonBrando and John... » 

A new trade paperback edition of McCullers second novel REFLECTIONS IN AGOLDEN EYE immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor MarlonBrando and John Houston.Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s REFLECTIONS tells the story ofCaptain Penderton a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of MajorLangdon a charming womanizer who has an affair with Pendertons tempestuousand flirtatious wife Leonora. Upon the novels publication in 1941 reviewerswere unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject matter. But acritic for Time Magazine wrote In almost any hands such material would yielda rank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her talewith simplicity insight and a rare gift of phrase. Written during a timewhen McCullerss own marriage to Reeves was on the brink of collapse hersecond novel deals with her trademark themes of alienation and unfulfilledloves. «