Reflections in a Golden Eye

Carson McCullers
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Five people in a peace time army camp. Five people each obsessed with the other, yet each alone in a private and impenetrable world. There's the Captain who dares not admit cowardice. There's the Major, whose ailing wife seeks consolation in the devoted attentions of a childlike Filipino. There's Private Williams, whose simple meandering existence requires strange peaks of fulfilment...
Genres: FictionClassicsSouthern GothicLGBTQueerNovelsAmericanLiterature20th CenturyLiterary Fiction
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