SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION The
definitive biography of America's most impassioned and lyrical
twentieth-century playwright from acclaimed theatre critic John
Lahr 'A masterpiece about a genius' Helen Mirren 'Riveting ...
masterful' Sunday Times, Books of the Year On 31 March 1945, at The
Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the
opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the
show's thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle
seat, looking, according to one paper, 'like a farm boy in his
Sunday best'. The Broadway premiere, which had been heading for
disaster, closed to an astonishing twenty-four curtain calls and
became an instant sell-out. Beloved by an American public,
Tennessee Williams's work - blood hot and personal - pioneered, as
Arthur Miller declared, 'a revolution' in American theatre. Tracing
Williams's turbulent moral and psychological shifts, acclaimed
theatre critic John Lahr sheds new light on the man and his work,
as well as the America his plays helped to define. Williams created
characters so large that they have become part of American
folklore: Blanche, Stanley, Big Daddy, Brick, Amanda and Laura
transcend their stories, haunting us with their fierce, flawed
lives. Similarly, Williams himself swung high and low in his
single-minded pursuit of greatness. Lahr shows how Williams's
late-blooming homosexual rebellion, his struggle against madness,
his grief-struck relationships with his combustible father, prim
and pious mother and 'mad' sister Rose, victim to one of the first
lobotomies in America, became central themes in his drama.
Including Williams's poems, stories, journals and private
correspondence in his discussion of the work - posthumously
Williams has been regarded as one of the best letter writers of his
day - Lahr delivers an astoundingly sensitive and lively
reassessment of one of America's greatest dramatists. Tennessee
Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is the long-awaited,
definitive life and a masterpiece of the biographer's art.
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