The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Ex Libris Gore Vidal
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[Ex Libris Gore Vidal] Devlin, Albert J. (ed.). The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume I, 1920-1945. First Edition. 2000. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is stamped “From the library of GORE VIDAL” on the flyleaf. Gore Vidal was one of the contributors to the book.
It has been oft-said that felines have nine lives, but time has shown that a Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (and A Streetcar Named Desire for that matter) has even more. Plays by Tennessee Williams, reincarnate with both ease and frequency—as timely now as when first produced. This first installment of the playwright’s letters takes him to his first Broadway success, The Glass Menagerie. Williams’s upbringing contained elements of the Southern Gothic that were emblematic of his plays, which makes these letters pieces of a fascinating puzzle. Gore Vidal, to whom this copy belonged, would become a great friend and occasional foil of Tennessee Williams, making this an association copy.
“I have started of an a rather disciplinary regime. Only one or two drinks a day, when very low, and a calm endurance of moods instead of a mad flight into intoxication and social distraction.”
--Tennessee Williams, August 20, 1940 Letter to Joseph Hazan
It has been oft-said that felines have nine lives, but time has shown that a Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (and A Streetcar Named Desire for that matter) has even more. Plays by Tennessee Williams, reincarnate with both ease and frequency—as timely now as when first produced. This first installment of the playwright’s letters takes him to his first Broadway success, The Glass Menagerie. Williams’s upbringing contained elements of the Southern Gothic that were emblematic of his plays, which makes these letters pieces of a fascinating puzzle. Gore Vidal, to whom this copy belonged, would become a great friend and occasional foil of Tennessee Williams, making this an association copy.
“I have started of an a rather disciplinary regime. Only one or two drinks a day, when very low, and a calm endurance of moods instead of a mad flight into intoxication and social distraction.”
--Tennessee Williams, August 20, 1940 Letter to Joseph Hazan
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