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On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain's wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderton - unhappily married to the unfaithful Leonora - in turn erotically fixates on Williams. Spare, muscular and sensual, with the dramatic vision of a Greek myth, Carson McCullers' novella is a timeless work about the alienation of forbidden desire.
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Penguin Archive: Reflections in a Golden Eye, Carson McCullers
- Language
- Released
- 2025
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Penguin Archive: Reflections in a Golden Eye
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Carson McCullers
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Released
- 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN10
- 0241752027
- ISBN13
- 9780241752029
- Series
- Tags
- Relationships, LGBTQ+, Novellas, Soldiers
- Description
- On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain's wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Captain Penderton - unhappily married to the unfaithful Leonora - in turn erotically fixates on Williams. Spare, muscular and sensual, with the dramatic vision of a Greek myth, Carson McCullers' novella is a timeless work about the alienation of forbidden desire.