A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur [Paperback]

Tennessee Williams (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 94 pages
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation (May 17, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811207579
• ISBN-13: 978-0811207577
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,896,717 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), one of the 20th century's most superb writers, was also one of its most successful and prolific. His classic works include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, Camino Real, Sweet Bird of Youth, Night of the Iguana, Orpheus Descending, and The Rose Tattoo.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A minor but charming play from a great writer., June 23, 1998

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This review is from: A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Hardcover)

A great writer cannot turn out a masterpiece (that overloaded term) each time, and no one reading or seeing A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur will mistake it for Williams's best work. Nevertheless, it has a touch of his genius, and enacts in miniature what he does so well in his greatest plays. Several mismatched people living in a boarding house in St. Louis become entangled in each other's lives. Prominent among them is an aging woman now basing her hope for a "real" life on the proposal of a man hardly worth her attention, and who learns she will have to make a life for herself or remain unfulfilled. The message of the play is to appreciate what you have, rather than striving for what you cannot achieve. It's a lesson Blanche DuBois might have heeded. As always, the poetic quality of the author's dialogue and stage directions enhances the play. This nicely printed New Directions "paperbook" is recommended to those who already know the author's best work, and who would like to get a fuller sense of his different moods and subjects. (Creve Coeur is a park in St. Louis, by the way.)