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Cover of Sweet bird of youth and other plays

Sweet bird of youth and other plays

✍ Scribed by Tennessee Williams


Publisher
New Directions;Penguin
Year
2015;2009
Tongue
English
Weight
99 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0141975121

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Now with an insightful new introduction, the author's original Foreword, and the one-act play, The Enemy: Time, on which Sweet Bird of Youth was based.

Tennessee Williams knew how to tell a good tale, and this steamy, wrenching play about a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, and about the lost innocence and corruption of Chance Wayne, reveals the dark side of the American dreams of youth and fame. Distinguished American playwright Lanford Wilson has written an insightful Introduction for this edition. Also included are Williams' original Foreword to the play; the one-act play The Enemy: Time--the germ for the full-length version, published here for the first time; an essay by Tennessee Williams scholar, Colby H. Kullman; and a chronology of the author's life.


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