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Title: Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers ISBN: 0-618-08475-4 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 08 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of McCullers' masterworks
Comment: Carson McCullers (a woman, by the way, despite another reviewer's assumption to the contrary) wrote much fiction involving the nature of love. She was never quite as romantic as that may sound: McCullers was one of the masters of the Southern Gothic genre, and Reflections in a Golden Eye is her best work. Her characters are stark and clear, her style crisp, and the action visible. While this is an easy novel to read in some senses, it is more of a prose poem in a novel form. The story deals with two couples on a drab and dull Army base and a young private's animalistic "awakening." His awakening coincides with those of the Captain and the Major's frail yet strong-willed, and bordering-on-insane, wife (whom McCullers seems to identify with most). McCullers dips in the consciousnesses of the five major characters and the result is chillingly beautiful. It's a shame this, McCuller's second novel and most unique of all her works, is out of print.
Rating: 5
Summary: smoldering story of lives in self-destruct mode...
Comment: One would expect a 20-something year old in 1940s southern USA to be all prim and nice, with no knowledge of such things as deep emotional trauma and burning homosexual desires. Well Carson McCullers defied conventional wisdom and not only was aware of such matters but deftly encapsulated it in a short, brutal novel. Reflections in a Golden Eye is a painful examination of the wrecked lives of two couples (, and other characters, ) on a military base in the South. There is little in the way of action or story per se, but it is her examination of characters which makes this novel such a winner.
This novel is not for everyone. It is rather depressing, with everyone leading neurotic lives. No happy endings, and one has to wonder if there is moral to the story. But those who can tolerate looking at the world without wearing rose-colored glasses will appreciate this masterful work.
PS - the novel is MUCH better than the film. And I enjoyed it better than her other famous novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Rating: 5
Summary: VERY VERY QUIET AND LOUD LIKE POETIC
Comment: Its a dream like EXPERIENCE of sadness and whats its like to be, REGRET REMORSE,internal inferno churning seein eyesclock tick marvelous suspense leading up build up suspence regret , EYE I CLICK TICK TICK, IN THE LITTLE WIERDLY BENEATH THE SURFACE PANARAMO THREE HUNDED DEGREES FLLEING MERRY GO ROUND EXHILIRATION in opposition to wierd whats in the world all told in a MORE real SENCE, SAD AUTUMN CRUETY MOMENTS OF CLEARTY THE HUMAN CONDITIONED ,cordinates scattered IN four directions MAP LIKE IN ITS UNfolding, VERY PRECISE TRAP ,LIE PRYIN OPEN, WITH NERVOUS FINGERS FIDGETY, MONSEROUS SHADES OF INFINITE IN FALLS ,SPRINGS OF MECHANISM COILED IN STILL NESS, FORCES OF domestic, placid , PLACEMATS,clearly described,rooms of comfort and rituals fossilized in ON THE SURFACE SIMPLE CLEAR WORDS THAT DANCE with meaning inexplicably , half way to insanity clear,just a tint of paganism barbed in diction flush cheeks of barbarism ,bathed in civility civil seville, SIN FORCES OF LOVE, LUST , CAGED AND BURNING,forces animal that cant be given their moments of flyght without consuming, or giving out and widing like CLOCKS NEEDING TO BE TURNED WIND UP TO awaken ALARMS,given their deeds done,CORRUPTION WE FOLLOW their footsteps, as they go where, all fallen all HALLOW, like a voyeour WE READ, AN ELABORATE LITERATE GAME OF CHESS,COMPOSED , from a genuis masterr story TELLER women CARSON MCcullers,
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Title: Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers ISBN: 0395929733 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by CARSON MCCULLERS ISBN: 0553269631 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1983 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Ballad Of The Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers ISBN: 0553272543 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1983 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Member of the Wedding by CARSON MCCULLERS ISBN: 0553250515 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Collected Stories of Carson McCullers by Carson McCullers ISBN: 0395925053 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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