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Title: Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams by Lyle Leverich ISBN: 0-393-31663-7 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I Love This Book
Comment: This is a wonderfully done book. I feel I've lived in "Tom's" shoes and appreciate who he was and the struggles he faced. It's a loving portrait that doesn't shy away from the honest details of the life of the young Tennessee. I hope the sequel that's to take us from the Glass Menangerie to the end of Tennessee's life comes out soon----I'll be waiting!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: If you want to know Williams, this book is essential.
Comment: Meticulously researched and sensitively written, this book is the definitive biography of Tennessee Williams, even though it only covers the period up to the beginning of his success. I haven't found any others that can rival its quality. The depth and detail are unsurpassed in Leverich's finely crafted portrait, revealing the many facets of one of America's greatest playwrights. As a "theater person," Leverich brings a special authority to his work, infusing it with expert analysis and theatrical history. A really great read!
Rating: 5
Summary: An intricate, sensitive and compelling portrait
Comment: Lyle Leverich, a theatre artist himself, paints (with the participation of the late "Tom" himself) an intricate, sensitive and compelling portrait of the closest The United States has come to producing her own Shakespeare.
Tennessee Williams' ability to place passionate and visual poetry into the mouths of the commoner and gentry alike makes his work, in my opinion the finest ever produced by an American playwright. The towering and beautiful fragile characters of his plays combined with his devotion to the utter magic the physical theatre provides, allowed America through Tennessee Williams to finally place itself rightly next to Ibsen, Strinberg, Chekov and The Bard himself.
Of course "Tom" did not develop in a vacume and what Leverich provides here in this excellent biography wrapped in the guise of a psychological thriller worthy of so great an object, is a portrait of a man often crippled by acute sensitivity who saw the writing muse as a means for survival. Leverich manages to paint the man behind the myth, bring him down into a real space and time while also managing to lift him to the angels.
This is one of the greatest biographies ever written about a theatre artist- of which Williams was a supreme being. I, and many others, eagerly await volume two.
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Title: The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto ISBN: 0306808056 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume I: 1920-1945 by Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin, Nancy M. Tischler ISBN: 081121527X Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Collected Stories (A New Directions Book) by Tennessee Williams ISBN: 0811212696 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Tennessee Williams: Plays 1957-1980 (Library of America) by Tennessee Williams, Mel Gussow, Kenneth Holdich, Kenneth Holditch ISBN: 1883011876 Publisher: Library of America Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Tennessee Williams (Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom ISBN: 0877546363 Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (Library) Pub. Date: May, 1988 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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