Description
Product ID: | 9780141191089 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
Title: | Sweet Bird of Youth and Other Plays |
Authors: | Author: Tennessee Williams |
Page Count: | 304 |
Subjects: | Plays, playscripts, Plays, playscripts |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Includes three plays - "Sweet Bird of Youth", "Period of Adjustment", and "Period of Adjustment". In "Sweet Bird of Youth", Chance Wayne returns to his home town with an ageing movie actress in search of the girl he loved in his youth, but with terrible, violent results. Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against personal demons and the modern world. In ''Sweet Bird of Youth'', a drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town with an ageing movie actress in search of the girl he loved in his youth, but with terrible, violent results. ''Period of Adjustment'' tells the story of two young newlyweds who visit the husband''s old army friend on Christmas Eve after unsuccessfully consummating their marriage, and unleash forbidden passion, while in ''The Night of the Iguana'' a diverse group of people, including a disturbed ex-minister and a troubled spinster, are thrown together in an isolated Mexican hotel for one eventful night. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2009-09-03 |