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Sweet Bird of Youth (Paperback, Revised)
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Sweet Bird of Youth (Paperback, Revised)
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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.
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