Sweet Bird of Youth / A Streetcar named Desire / The Glass Menagerie (Penguin Plays) - Softcover

WILLIAMS TENNESSEE

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140480153 ISBN 13: 9780140480153

Publisher: Penguin, 1982

Synopsis

R240089729. SWEET BORD OF YOUTH A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE THE GLASS MENAGERIE.. 1969. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos fané, Intérieur acceptable. 313 pages - coins abîmées - ouvrage en anglais.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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Review:

Knowing his subject with chilling intensity, Mr. Williams peels off layer after layer of the skin, body, and spirit of his characters and leaves their nature exposed.--Brooks Atkinson

Be especially sensitive to the play as he's written it, as he saw and heard it in his imagination...this is not realism. This is a dream that keeps going wrong.--Lanford Wilson

From the Back Cover:

The very title of Sweet Bird of Youth is one of ironic pity. The two chief characters--a raddled has-been actress from Hollywood, seeking to forget her present in drugs and sex, and her still handsome masseur-gigolo, who has brought her to his hometown in the South, believing that through her money and faded glamor his gaudy illusions may yet come true--are the reverse side of the American dream of youth. Yet as they work out their fate amid violence and horror, there is nevertheless a note of compassion for the damned.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0140480153
• ISBN 13: 9780140480153
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320