The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone Tennessee Williams Author

by Tennessee Williams

2021-04-02 23:18:54

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a... Read more
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband''s death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to adjust to her aimless new life in Rome. She is adjusting, too, to aging. ("The knowledge that her beauty was lost had come upon her recently and it was still occasionally forgotten.") With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo: "As compelling, as fascinating, and as technically skillful as his play" ( Publishers Weekly ). " Less

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File size5.30(w)x7.90(h)x0.50(d)
Print pages160
PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date October 25, 2013
ISBN9780811221450
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – Feb 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright. Williams became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944...

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