Collected Stories - Couverture rigide

Williams, Tennessee

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0436572141 ISBN 13 : 9780436572142

Editeur : Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

A collection of short stories selected from the four volumes of works that Williams produced during his lifetime. From the author of THE GLASS MENAGERIE, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. Includes an introduction by Gore Vidal.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

'Disturbing, moving, and funny; these stories help amplify Williams's tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the human heart'

New York Times

Acclaimed as one of America's most successful playwrights, Tennessee Williams also published four volumes of short stories. In Collected Stories, these volumes are combined with a wealth of unpublished and uncollected work, ranging from his first his story published in `Weird Tales' when William was seventeen, to his later frank homosexual fantasies.

Williams was famous for insisting he write every morning. Even during his darkest days, while mourning a lover, or abusing some substance - he would write. The Collected Stories are from every period of his life, and recreate the milieux Williams knew and chronicled so movingly - from his gypsy youth in St. Louis and New Orleans to his days of celebrity in Hollywood and New York.

'The two ingredients of Williams's plays - great gab and steamy sex - are both here in the stories' Edmund White, Sunday Times

Revue de presse

"Funny, bizarre, often moving and always brave" (Sunday Times)

"I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny" (John Waters)

"Williams's ear for dialogue, eye for character, and exploration of love, longing and loneliness are as powerful in these stories as they are in his plays." (John Berendt, author of Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil)

"There used to be two streetcars in New Orleans. One was named Desire and the other was called Cemeteries. To get where you were going, you changed from the first to the second. In these stories, Tennessee validated with his genius our common ticket of transfer" (Gore Vidal)

"As in the plays, it is the force and adroitness of his curiosity that impresses." (Guardian)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0436572141
• ISBN 13: 9780436572142
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 600
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible