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Synopsis
"Period of adjustement" is about marital problems that surface at Christmas, in a comedy of human foibles and frustrations; "Summer and Smoke" is a turn of the century drama set in Mississippi. "Small Craft Warnings" is set in a bar on the Californian coast, where a group of people grapple with existence and survival.
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About the Author
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. 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 entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. 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), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Orpheus Descending (1957), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963; revised 1964) and Small Craft Warnings (1972).
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0140183760
- ISBN 13 9780140183764
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
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