A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is published in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and ...
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A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is published in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies, jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. 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 evenings writing. 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 The Glass Menagerie (1944), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). If you enjoyed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, you might like Williams's The Glass Menagerie, also published in Penguin Modern Classics. 'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself ... he is, quite simply, indispensable' Peter Shaffer, author of Equus
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Add this copy of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to cart. $66.52, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Add this copy of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to cart. $75.00, very good condition, Sold by Ira Joel Haber rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brooklyn, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by New Directions.
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The great Tennessee Williams play that was revived by the American Shakespeare Theatre in 1974 and contains the completely rewritten third act along with other revisions. This production starred Elizabeth Ashley (who is pictured on the front cover) Keir Dullea, Kate Reid and Fred Gwynne. Small name label of Bridget Aschenberg, a playwrights' agent for more than 40 years on the front pastedown, faint browning to the endsheet and pastedown where a newspaper clipping wa laid in. Laid in is a playbill from the 2003 production of the play that starred Ashley Judd. Near fine/fine.
Add this copy of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to cart. $85.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by New Directions.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. First revised edition. Near fine in a fine dust jacket with a touch of toning. A complete revision of the third act for the American Shakespeare Theatre production, and uncommon.
Add this copy of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to cart. $100.00, like new condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1975 by New Directions.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First revised edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A complete revision of the third act for the American Shakespeare Theatre production, and uncommon.
Cat on A Hot Tin Roof is one of three plays that rank among Tennessee's finest. Maggie wants back the affection of her alcoholic husband. Brick wants to drink until he "hears that click" and all of his problems fade away. Big Daddy wants to know why his son drinks. Big Mama wants to know from Maggie what is wrong with her son's marriage. Sister Woman is scheming to see to it that she, her husband, and her brood of "no neck monsters" inherit the estate. Brother Man wants the love and affection of his parents lavished on Brick. So, what is Brick's problem? You will have to hear Maggie explain that night spent with Brick's late best friend, Skipper. All of these problems come to a dramatic conclusion on a stormy night, in and out of the house.
