Book description
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. Carson McCullers was born
at Columbus, Georgia, in 1917. She published
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
at the age of twenty-three. Her other works include Reflections in a
Golden Eye
(1941), The Member of the Wedding
(1946), The Ballad of the Sad Caf
(1951), The Square Root of Wonderful
(1958), a play, Clock Without Hands
(1961), Sweet as a Pickle, Clean as a Pig
(1964) and The Mortgaged Heart
(published posthumously in 1972). She died in 1967.
