The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume I: 1920-1945
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Winner of the Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters, Modern Language Association, 2001. When first published in 2000, Volume I of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams was hailed as "indispensable" (Choice), "a carefully researched, fully documented study," (Buffalo News) and "a model edition of a significant set of letters by one of America's leading writers" (MLA citation for the Morton N. Cohen Award). This volume will help a widening circle of the great American playwright's readers appreciate that he was also "a prodigy of the letter" (Allan Jalon, San Francisco Chronicle) and that "his letters are among the century's finest" (John Lahr, The New Yorker). Tennessee Williams wrote to family, friends, and fellow artists with equal measures of piety, wit, and astute self-knowledge. Presented with a running commentary to separate Williams's often hilarious, but sometimes devious, counter-reality from truth, the letters form a virtual autobiography of the great American dramatist. Volume I of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: 1920-1945 includes 330 letters written to nearly seventy correspondents and chosen from a group of 900 letters collected by two leading Williams scholars: Albert J. Devlin, professor of English at the University of Missouri, and Nancy M. Tischler, Professor Emerita of English at Pennsylvania State University.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:081121527X
ISBN13:9780811215275
Release Date:September 2002
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:581 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
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A must have for Tennessee Williams fans
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
These letters of Tennessee Williams offer a rare insight into the private life of Tennessee Williams.
A must for fans of Tennessee Williams
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I have everything that Tennessee Williams ever published, so I am biased. This is yet another intimate look into the private life of this legendary playwright.
Covers the Most Productive Years of his Life
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
This is the second volume of correspondence of Tennessee Williams covering the most productive middle years of his life. It includes letters to and from friends during what was his most productive time. This when he was writing some of his best works, and the letters reflect the difficulties he was having with the work in process. These letters end in 1957 when he had just had two failed plays and the ever present critics were predicting the end of his career. The book also includes a running commentary on the letters to keep them in perspective to the actuall happenings in his life. As a result, they form a sort of autobiography of the great dramatist.
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