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Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr (Paperback, 2015)
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONThe definitive biography of America’s most impassioned and lyrical twentieth-century playwright from acclaimed theatre critic John Lahr'A masterpiece about a genius' Helen Mirren'Riveting ... masterful' Sunday Times, Books of the YearOn 31 March 1945, at The Playhouse Theatre on Forty-Eight Street the curtain rose on the opening night of The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams, the show’s thirty-four-year-old playwright, sat hunched in an aisle seat, looking, according to one paper, ‘like a farm boy in his Sunday best’. The Broadway premiere, which had been heading for disaster, closed to an astonishing twenty-four curtain calls and became an instant sell-out. Beloved by an American public, Tennessee Williams’s work – blood hot and.
