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100 1 $aLahr, John,$d1941-$eauthor.
245 10 $aTennessee Williams :$bmad pilgrimage of the flesh /$cJohn Lahr.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bW.W. Norton & Company,$c[2014]
300 $axv, 765 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aDust jacket design by Paul Davis.
500 $aRare Book copy: In original dust jacket.$5NNC
500 $aRare Book copy: Inscribed to Jenny [Jennifer B. Lee] by the author.$5NNC
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [617]-730) and index.
520 $aHere, celebrated drama critic John Lahr 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 light on 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, this book is as much a biography of the man as it is a trenchant exploration of his plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen. Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just his 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 theater biography like no other.--From publisher description.
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.
600 10 $aWilliams, Tennessee,$d1911-1983.
600 17 $aWilliams, Tennessee,$d1911-1983.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00040786
650 0 $aDramatists, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 7 $aDramatists, American.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00897556
648 7 $a1900 - 1999$2fast
655 7 $aBiography.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423686
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541 0 $cGift;$aJennifer B. Lee;$d2019.