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4.0 out of 5 stars
Kinda slim pickins photographically speakin,
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This review is from: Tennessee Williams and the South (Paperback)
The restrictive "and the South" limits this picture book to the playwright's childhood in Mississippi; his vivifying transfer to old New Orleans in 1939 and his series of stays there thruout his life; and his periods of residence in Key West. The photos leave the impression that there's not that much to choose from. Since many of his plays have Southern settings, production stills qualify for inclusion.I don't know if coauthors Leavitt (1929-2003) and Holditch (1933- ) related to each other as friends or more than friends--both got to know TW pretty well. The biographical essay supporting this photo album is fulsome in positive regard for TW: Americ's greatest playwright, a premier poet and short story writer, a fighter never defeated by his demons or indeed the demons of others. Well, in Williams' lifetime (1911-1983) the Broadway stage, the movies subject to the Breen Office, shaky homosexual relations + trade snacks, the writer's shifty psyche, and his mothball suth'n accent cooked up into quite a stew. Two revelatory must-reads are his Notebooks and his Letters, vol. 2, 1945-1957--both with extensive notes by the editors. |
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Tennessee Williams and the South by W. Kenneth Holditch (Hardcover - Apr. 2002)
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