Name: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays By Tennessee Williams
SKU: 9780141184357
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays Summary

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams

Tennesee Williams' landmark play exposes the emotional lies governing relationships in the family of a wealthy Southern planter of humble origins. The patriarch, Big Daddy, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. His two married sons, Gooper (Brother Man) and Brick, have returned for the occasion, the former with his pregnant wife and five children, the latter with his wife Margaret (Maggie). Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a brutally honest examination of homosexuality, father/son relationships, greed, manipulation, ageing, and death.

About Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evening writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Baby Doll (1957), Orpheus Descending (1957), Something Unspoken (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1958), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in 1983.

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Sku

GOR001587081

ISBN 13

9780141184357

ISBN 10

0141184353

Title

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams

Author

Tennessee Williams

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

20011129

Number of pages

336

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N/A

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays Tennessee Williams

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays Summary

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams

About Tennessee Williams

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