‘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
“I cannot write any sort of story, ” said Tennessee [to Gore Vidal] “unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.” These transgressiveTales of Desire, including “One Arm, ” “Desire and the Black Masseur, ” “Hard Candy, ” and “The Killer Chicken and the Closet Queen, ” show the iconic playwright at his outrageous best.
About the author
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.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 112 ● ISBN 9780811220835 ● File size 0.4 MB ● Publisher New Directions ● Country US ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7469724 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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