
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Tennessee Williams(Author)
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published on 20. December 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-8112-2145-0 (ISBN)
Description
The 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).
Reviews / Votes
"A brilliant accomplishment." -- The Washington PostMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
186 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8112-2145-0 (9780811221450)
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Previous edition
Tennessee Williams
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Book
08/1994
New Directions Publishing Corporation
€27.42
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Person
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.