Collected Stories (A New Directions Book) - Softcover

Williams, Tennessee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811212696 ISBN 13: 9780811212694

Publisher: New Directions, 1994

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 1994 07 Pages: 602 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Tennessee Williams was famous for insisting he write every morning. Even during his darkest days. While Mourning a lover or abusing some substance - and he abused most of them at one time or another - he'd write. The stories in this volume. arranged chronologically. are from every period of his long 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 celeity in Hollywood and New York. Some are studies for his plays. and like them. their language can suddenly surprise you with a poetic image that shines like a jewel. This edition includes a useful publishing history for each of the fifty stories. One overpowering impression emerges from all these stories put together: Tennessee Williams knew more about the hidden l...

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Review:

"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)

Book Description:

The complete stories of America's distinguished playwright, Tennessee Williams.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0811212696
• ISBN 13: 9780811212694
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608