Tea and Sympathy
by Robert Anderson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Random House, 1953. First edition. First printing. Good copy with Good jacket. In beige cloth covers with paste-on photograph and black lettering on front cover. Blue stained top edge. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Light bumping to ends of spine. Shadow of laid in paper on rear endpapers. Jacket is intact with price on upper front flap. Small closed tear on upper front panel Chipping on upper edges. Also residue shadow on rear flap. Moderate wear. In new protective jacket cover. Photos upon request. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Reviews
On May 9 2011, EarlEDoors said:
A play in three acts by Robert Anderson, which opened in London in 1957In a New England boys’ boarding school the only intimacy encouraged between the pupils and the masters’ wives is ‘tea and sympathy’. Laura though has more than sympathy for young Tom; he reminds her of her first husband-a sensitive boy who died in the Second World War proving his courage and manhood. Tom is persecuted for being different and is labelled a homosexual. In fact he is quite normal and is secretly crazy about Laura whose marriage to second husband Bill is distinctly rocky.Rejected by father friends and teachers tom tries to prove himself with the local whore but is impotent and tries to kill himself. For this act he must leave the school but on his last day Laura declares that she is leaving Bill whose persecution of Tom has made her see what Bill is covering up. She goes to Tom and finds him doubting himself so much that she offers herself – and he responds.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005251
- Title
- Tea and Sympathy
- Author
- Robert Anderson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Play
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Plays;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
Items must be returned within ten days of sale for a full refund if not satisfied.
About the Seller
Quaker House Books
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania
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