Carson McCullers

An inscribed New Directions reissue of McCullers's second novel.

• Carson McCullers (American).
• Introduction by Tennessee Williams.
• (New York): (New Directions), (1950).
• 182 pages.
• Inscribed by McCullers on front free endpaper: "For Jack and Georgia / Carson."
• Original tan cloth, in original unclipped ($1.50) blue and tan dust jacket designed by Al Lustig.

"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."

First published in 1941 and set on a Georgia army base beset with unspoken sexual obsessions, strange hates, 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. In his new introduction to this New Classics Series edition from New Directions, Williams champions 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.