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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780393351651
- Book Title
- Tennessee Williams : Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Drama, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Drama, Theater / History & Criticism, Literary, American / General
- Item Width
- 5.6 in
- Item Weight
- 22.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 784 Pages
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John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee 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. With compassion and verve, Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just Williams's tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood and the director Elia Kazan play major roles, and Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time.
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393351653
ISBN-13
9780393351651
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208738877
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tennessee Williams : Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Drama, Theater / History & Criticism, Literary, American / General
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Drama, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
784 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ps3545.I5365
Reviews
This is by far the best book ever written about America's greatest playwright. John Lahr, the longtime drama critic for the New Yorker, knows his way around Broadway better than anyone. He is a witty and elegant stylist, a scrupulous researcher, a passionate yet canny advocate... He brings us as close to Williams as we are ever likely to get., This is a masterpiece about a genius. Only John Lahr, with his perceptions about the theater, about writers, about poetry, and about people could have written this book. What a marvelous read., Fascinating... Lahr gives us a sense of the ebb and flow of Williams's life, exercising a critic's keen eye on the plays, a novelist's gift for characterization, and a historian's awareness of the way a changing American society colored his work... As much a biography of the plays as of the playwright--a book that lets the life illuminate the work and the work illuminate the life., Scintillating on the backstage and bedroom dramas and almost intrusively perceptive on the autobiographical nature of Williams' art., Offers plenty of backstage anecdotes and high private drama.... But Mr. Lahr, ever the critic, keeps the plays themselves front and center.... The book has already won enthusiastic advance notice...along with blurbs from a kick line of A-list 'theatricals' including Helen Mirren, John Guare and Tony Kushner., A work that is scintillating on the backstage and bedroom dramas and almost intrusively perceptive on the autobiographical nature of Williams' art., Lahr has managed to capture the complex and at times contradictory qualities--the razor wit and gracious Southern charm, the bottomless drive and uncanny capacity for self-destruction--that characterized one of the 20th century's greatest writers., Could this be the best theater book I've ever read? It just might be. Tennessee Williams had two great pieces of luck: Elia Kazan to direct his work and now John Lahr to make thrilling sense of his life., Magnificent...one of the best written and most extraordinary biographies I've ever read, in any field., At once sensitive and magisterial, and it fulfills the ultimate test for a literary biography by convincing you that the works cannot be understood without it. Once you have read it, it becomes part of their meaning., Lahr's expansive, polished and keenly observed volume is a major work of American theater criticism and biography., Brilliant and seamless. A labor of the profoundest love, and it comes from the heart and mind of one of our greatest theater writers., There's never been an American critic like John Lahr. His writing exalts, honors, and dignifies the profession and, more importantly, the art., The singular achievement of John Lahr's magisterial book, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is that it's one betwitching writer's journey into the lives--public and private--of another., A crucial contribution to the arguments that should always rage around a man who was one of the greatest American playwrights of his tempestuous century., Scrupulously researched and elegantly written...makes you feel the day-to-day life of Tennessee, onstage and off, like no other I've read...required reading for anyone in the theater., Elegantly written as well as psychologically acute... Lahr balances quotation and interpretation, sympathy and criticism, in this searing and unforgettable portrait of the artist who gave voice to the repressed, the reviled and the restless., [P]rodigiously researched... acute and elegant... Lahr is most superb on the relationship between Williams and the director Eliz Kazan, perhaps his greatest collaborator., It is a masterpiece on several levels: of synthesis and analysis (an amazing life apprehended afresh, with great learning lightly borne and a strong streak of showbiz savvy; a page-turner that is almost embarrassingly devourable).
Copyright Date
2015
Dewey Decimal
812.54
Dewey Edition
23
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