The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: 1920-1945 - Couverture souple

Williams, Tennessee

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081121527X ISBN 13 : 9780811215275

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2002

Synopsis

Winner of the Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters, Modern Language Association, 2001. When first published in 2000, Volume I of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams was hailed as "indispensable" (Choice), "a carefully researched, fully documented study," (Buffalo News) and "a model edition of a significant set of letters by one of America's leading writers" (MLA citation for the Morton N. Cohen Award). This volume will help a widening circle of the great American playwright's readers appreciate that he was also "a prodigy of the letter" (Allan Jalon, San Francisco Chronicle) and that "his letters are among the century's finest" (John Lahr, The New Yorker). Tennessee Williams wrote to family, friends, and fellow artists with equal measures of piety, wit, and astute self-knowledge. Presented with a running commentary to separate Williams's often hilarious, but sometimes devious, counter-reality from truth, the letters form a virtual autobiography of the great American dramatist. Volume I of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: 1920-1945 includes 330 letters written to nearly seventy correspondents and chosen from a group of 900 letters collected by two leading Williams scholars: Albert J. Devlin, professor of English at the University of Missouri, and Nancy M. Tischler, Professor Emerita of English at Pennsylvania State University.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was America's most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays--The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions--we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081121527X
• ISBN 13: 9780811215275
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 581
• Éditeur: Devlin Albert J, Tischler Nancy Marie Patterson
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible