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Sweet Bird of Youth (Paperback, Revised): Tennessee Williams

Sweet Bird of Youth (Paperback, Revised)

Tennessee Williams; Introduction by Landford Wilson

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The acclaimed classic in a new edition, 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.
Sometime actor and full-time male hustler Chance Wayne returns to the Gulf Coast town of St. Cloud in an attempt to retrieve his lost innocence by reuniting with his high school girlfriend, Heavenly Finley. But Chance arrives there with his current employer, the drug-addicted, over-the- hill movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, who uses Chance, teaches him to use others, and doesn't intend to let him go. Chance learns that when he left St. Cloud years before, he left Heavenly with a crippling venereal disease. Heavenly's brother and her father--the powerful Boss Finley, a politician who has been responsible for local lynchings--have marked Chance as "a criminal degenerate" and plan to castrate him. Williams knew how to tell a good tale, and this gritty and wrenching play also reveals the dark side of the American dreams of youth and fame by implicating small town injustice, systemic racism, and the depth of suffering that results from personal and public corruption.

General

Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2010
First published: October 2008
Authors: Tennessee Williams
Introduction by: Landford Wilson
Dimensions: 203 x 132 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 126
Edition: Revised
ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1807-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN: 0-8112-1807-4
Barcode: 9780811218078

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