REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE
First UK edition of McCullers's second novel, and her first book to be published in the UK.
Very good in good jacket.
Price: $45.00
REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE
"After he had passed the soldier he had to suppress a craving to turn around, and as he walked away he felt his heart swell with a wild, nostalgic sadness which he could not control."
Set on a Georgia army base beset with unspoken sexual obsessions and sudden outbreaks of violence, REFLECTIONS was once criticized as morbid and unwholesome, now recognized as one of the great gay classics of the early 20th century and the basis for a late-'60s John Huston film adaptation starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. In his introduction to a later edition, Tennessee Williams would champion it as "one of the purest and most powerful of those works which are conceived in that Sense of The Awful which is the desperate black root of nearly all significant modern art," superior in artistic control to her celebrated debut, braver than Proust, nobler in spirit than any since Melville.
The Object
First printing. London: Cresset Press, 1942. 7.25'' x 5''. Original red cloth. In original unclipped (6/-) dust jacket. 121, [1] pages. Light wear to boards, sunning to lower spine. Moderate chipping and soil to jacket, tape repairs to verso.
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