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    <body><![CDATA[This is a really 'dark' story (typical Carson McCullers), but it is<br/>so well written, I had to rate it well.<br/>The story is set on an army base in the 1930s.  It's about two officers<br/>and their wives who live in next door housing, another single soldier,<br/>and a Philipino house servant...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60648301">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong> Compelling drama, but oddly cold </strong><br/><br/>With its short page count, &quot;Reflections in a Golden Eye&quot; is more of a novella than a novel. What is disappointing about it is that it takes about fifty pages (the majority of the novella) to get involved in the characters and the plot. It start...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22164113">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[To quote the opening paragraph: &quot;There is a fort in the South where a few years ago a murder was committed, The participants of this tragedy were: two officers, a soldier, two women, a Filipino and a horse.&quot;<br/><br/>McCullers tells this story in beautifully direct prose, which really gi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63163284">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A novella set in an army camp in the US south in the 50s or 60s. It concerns six characters (two officer couples, a servant and a conscript), each with an obsession with one of the others. Unlike some of her books, race barely comes into it, but rank and sexuality do. It's slow, painful , a little w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38366617">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Carson McCullers has an elegant style. The characters are memorable. As she says in her opening, this is a story about a murder, two officers, two wives, an enlisted man, and a horse. I enjoyed peeking into each of these people and watching the drama unfold.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A tightly-wound classic, outrageous and outside of time. (The movie was pretty hot, too.) It is the reason I quake every time I happen to lay eyes on the gardening shears (and why I'll never let my wife trim the shrubbery).]]></body>
    
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