Hard Candy - Tennessee Williams

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Résumé :
Hard Candy?contains Tennessee Williams's short stories written after the publication of his first collection of short fiction,?One Arm, and before the stories appearing in?The Knightly Quest. These volumes have established him as an original, compelling, and honest master of the short story. The stories in?Hard Candy?display Mr. Williams's mastery of several very different styles. Three Players of a Summer Game, for instance, is as powerful and moving a study of the disintegration of an individual as?A Streetcar Named Desire. The delicate and luminous nostalgia of The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin will remind readers of?The Glass Menagerie. Other stories, like Two on a Party, are more colloquial and brittle...

Biographie:

?Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was America's most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays-The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions-we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.