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Tennessee Williams (Critical Lives) by Paul Ibell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Few writers have brought more of their life into their works than famed playwright Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III. His characters have often served as proxies for himself, his mother, and especially his tragically unstable sister, Rose, who many consider to be the inspiration for Williams's iconic female leads Blanche DuBois and Laura Wingfield. In this gripping new biography, Paul Ibell looks at Williams as a poet, playwright, brother, homosexual, alcoholic, drug addict, and, ultimately, a deeply passionate soul whose operatically intense plays were a vibrant reflection of life.Ibell discusses Williams's early plays that have become household names: __The Glass Menagerie__, __A Streetcar Named Desire__, and __Cat on a Hot Tin Roof__. But he also rescues Williams's later works from critical obscurity, uncovering overlooked values in them. He explores the importance of Europe on the Southerner's imagination, following Williams and his companion—Gore Vidal—through holiday after holiday in Italy; and he looks, especially, at the theme for which Williams became most known: the power of sexual attraction and the tragedy of its loss when we—as we all must do—grow old.Punchy, acce

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Author

Paul Ibell

Publisher

Reaktion Books, Limited

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780236629

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction