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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (New Directions Bibelot)

By Tennessee Williams

Book information

Publisher
New Directions
Year
1993
ISBN
0811212491, 9780811212496
LCC
PS3545.I5365 R58 1993
Open Library ID
OL1042864M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
267 kB (273324 bytes)
Pages
45\45
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

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 skilled as his plays." (Publishers Weekly)

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