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Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams ; with an essay by the author.

Series: Penguin modern classicsPublisher: London : Penguin, 2009Description: xv, 124 p. 20 cm001: 13986ISBN: 9780141190280Subject(s): American drama | Plays | Sexuality | GenderDDC classification: 823 WIL

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'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion- Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually 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 on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.

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Tennessee Williams's second Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, confronts homosexuality, father-and-son relationships, greed, manipulation, aging, and death. It is considered today with A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie as among his finest works for the stage. In this new offering in the Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series, Harold Bloom offers his critical eye to the characters of Brick, Big Daddy,l and the deceptive Maggie the Cat, presented here with a bibliography, a chronology of Williams's life, and a handy index. Excerpted from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams by Harold Bloom All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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