000			02212nam a2200241 a 4500
001			026979
005			20231009193340.0
008			150115t20142014nyua b 001 0beng
020			_a9780393021240
050	0	0	_aPS3545.I5365 _bZ7326 2014
082	1		_a92 _2 WIL
100	1		_aLahr, John _d(, 1941-)
245	1	0	_aTennessee Williams : _bmad pilgrimage of the flesh _c/ John Lahr.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York _b: W.W.Norton & Company _c, 2014
300			_axv, 765 pages _b: illustrations _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and (pages 725-730) index.
505	0		_aBlood-hot and personal -- The heart can't wait -- The erotics of absence -- Fugitive mind -- Thunder of disintegration -- Beanstalk country -- Kookhood -- Waving and drowning -- The long farewell -- The sudden subway.
520	3		_aTennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate.With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life - his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin -Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams's plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen.The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was twenty-six, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez and Frank Merlo.
600	0	4	_aWilliams, Tennessee _d(, 1911-1983)
650		4	_aDramatists, American _y-20th century _v--Biography
942			_cMO
999			_c267000 _d267000