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Tennessee Williams in Provincetown (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Tennessee Williams in Provincetown (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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You Save R69 (18%)
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Tennesse Williams in Provincetown is the story of Tennesse
Williams' four summer seasons in Provincetown, Massachusetts: 1940,
'41, '44 and '47. During that time he wrote plays, short stories,
and jewel-like poems. In Provincetown Williams fell in love
unguardedly for perhaps the only time in his life. He had his heart
broken there, perhaps irraparably. The man he thought might replace
his first lover tried to kill him there, or at least Williams
thought so. Williams drank in Provincetown, he swam there, and he
took conga lessons there. He was poor and then rich there; he was
photographed naked and clothed there. He was unknown and then
famous--and throughout it all Williams wrote every morning. The
list of plays Williams worked on in Provincetown include The Glass
Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Summer and Smoke, the
beginnings of The Night of the Iguana and Suddenly Last Summer, and
an abandoned autobiographical play set in Provincetown, The Parade.
Tennessee Williams in Provincetown collects original interviews,
journals, letters, photographs, accounts from previous biographies,
newspapers from the period, and Williams' own writing to establish
how the time Williams spent in Provincetown shaped him for the rest
of his life. The book identifies major themes in Williams' work
that derive from his experience in Provincetown, in particular the
necessity of recollection given the short season of love. The book
also connects Williams mature theatrical experiments to his early
friendships with Jackson Pollack, Lee Krasner and the German
performance artist Valeska Gert. Tennessee Williams in
Provincetown, based on several years of extensive research and
interviews, includes previously unpublished photographs, previously
unpublished poetry, and anecdotes by those who were there.
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