\\\'Big Daddy\\\' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in theMississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday.His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wifeand children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned todrink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer eveningunfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentilitygradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies,jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point.Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, \\\"Cat ona Hot Tin Roof\\\" is a masterly portrayal of family tensions andindividuals trapped in prisons of their own making.
【作者简介】
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 yearslater, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down tocity life. He entered college during the Depression and left aftera couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. Hestayed there for two years, spending the evening writing. Heentered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, atthe same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of greatdiversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for hisplay Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published Summer andSmoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Baby Doll(1957), Orpheus Descending (1957), Something Unspoken (1958),Suddenly Last Summer (1958), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Nightof the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn\\\'t Stop Here Anymore(1963), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in1983.
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