The Glass Menagerie (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Williams, Tennessee

ISBN 10: 0808508830 ISBN 13: 9780808508830

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 1999

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Crippled Laura Wingfield momentarily accepts reality and breaks free from the imaginary world of her glass animals when her mother arranges for her to have a gentleman caller.

About this title

About the Author:

Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 and started writing aged forteen as a means of "escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable". He spent the Depression years working in a shoe factory, before eventually getting his plays professionally produced in the 40s, starting with The Glass Menagerie which won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. In 1947 A Street Car Named Desire opened in New York and ran for 885 performances. Williams died in 1983.

From AudioFile:

Despite being digitally remastered, this 1964 full-cast production featuring four of America's best stage actors doesn't quite work. They sound as if they're reading lines, rather than acting--they don't manage to make the listener suspend reality and enter the life of the play. Their Southern accents seem forced and the language stilted. In addition, as the actors wander in and out of range of the microphones, their voices strengthen, then fade. The third CD of the package contains rare recordings of Williams himself reading the opening dialogue and closing scene of the play, as well as several poems. It's interesting listening to his slightly nasal, gentle drawl, yet all in all, some archival material is best left on the shelf. A.C.S. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0808508830
• ISBN 13: 9780808508830
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 105