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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Williams, Tennessee
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Signet, 1958. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges, creased at the spine. Square and firmly bound, usually toning to the pages, clean otherwise. Williams's classic play about the family life on a Mississippi plantation. The play won both the Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics' Circle Award.
Synopsis
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evening writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels , and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Baby Doll (1957), Orpheus Descending (1957), Something Unspoken (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1958), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in 1983 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6490
- Title
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Author
- Williams, Tennessee
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Signet
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- Drama, Theatre, American Literature, Gay
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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