Memoirs
When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwright were called "a raw display of private life" by The New York Times Book Review. As it turns out, thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed; he r…
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- Full title :Memoirs / Tennessee Williams ; introduction by John Waters.
Summary
When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwright were called "a raw display of private life" by The New York Times Book Review. As it turns out, thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed; he recalls his childhood in Mississippi and St. Louis, his prolonged struggle as a "starving artist," the "overnight" success of The Glass Menagerie in 1945, the death of his long-time companion Frank Merlo in 1962, and his confinement to a psychiatric ward in 1969 and subsequent recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, all with the same directness, compassion, and insight that epitomize his plays. (Barnes & Noble)
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- Publication Date:2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):New Directions
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
Notes
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1975. With a new introduction
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 274 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780811220828, 0811220826, 9780141975108, 0141975105
- oclc:ocn919258805
- LC Classification:PS3545.I5365
- Dewey Decimal:812/.54
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