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Tennessee Williams
- Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Ashley
- Length: 26 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker.
John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate.
With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life - his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin - Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams’s plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen.
The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was twenty-six, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez and Frank Merlo. With compassion and verve, Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life.
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- National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Biography, 2014
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- Rev. Charles Coyle
- 01-03-19
very enjoyable
I enjoyed listening to this book. it seemed to be an honest account of a brilliant and complex man
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- Alice
- 27-07-22
oh Oh wow!
This is such an important biography and so long awaited. No better than Tony Kushner is a fan and you can find the wonderful interview on YouTube with the author. That's how I found this and I'm so glad I did. It's everything you'd ever hope for in a great audio book and the actor is perfection. Granted it's very long but worth every word as Tennessee wrote so much. Essential reading for theatre makers Lyme me and all who love life and theatre. Indulge!
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- F. Wynn
- 09-09-16
Ruined by Narrator
I looked forward to this book as I am a great admirer of Tennessee Williams. I have read other books written by John Lahr and thought that I was 'on a winner' with my choice.
The narrator was dreadful . She ruined the book completely. I could not bear to listen to it. I have had to mark the three categories or this will not be accepted so I have complied. As I did not finish the book, these are not true. I am sure that the book is very good, the experience wasn't .
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