Spring is here—or so sayeth the calendar—and that means lots of leg shaving, swimsuit buying, seed planting, and covertly snipping branches of frothy apple blossoms from your neighbor’s tree in the dead of night. After all that, when you’re in more of a lounging mood, dive into a hammock with a mug of the cherry blossom tea and […]
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Tennessee Williams's first novelThe Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to adjust to her aimless new life in Rome. She is adjusting, too, to aging. ("The knowledge that her beauty was lost had come upon her recently and it was still occasionally forgotten.") With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo: "As compelling, as fascinating, and as technically skillful as his play" (Publishers Weekly).
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Tennessee Williams's first novelThe Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to adjust to her aimless new life in Rome. She is adjusting, too, to aging. ("The knowledge that her beauty was lost had come upon her recently and it was still occasionally forgotten.") With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo: "As compelling, as fascinating, and as technically skillful as his play" (Publishers Weekly).
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780811221450 |
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Publisher: | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Publication date: | 10/25/2013 |
Pages: | 160 |
Sales rank: | 194,379 |
Product dimensions: | 5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.50(d) |
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