Memoirs

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Author: Tennessee Williams

ISBN-10: 0811216691

ISBN-13: 9780811216692

Category: American & Canadian Letters

For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story.\ When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the mediathough long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candor about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest...

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For the "old crocodile," as Williams called himself late in life, the past was always present, and so it is with his continual shifting and intermingling of times, places, and memories as he weaves this story.Library JournalWilliams's thoroughly honest memoir, with its open talk of homosexuality, alcoholism/drug addiction, and mental illness, was quite the eyeopener in 1975. His work and partying made him buddies with many famous writers and actors of the day (Capote, Brando, etc.), whom he discusses. Besides all the gossip, the book also provides insight into one of the world's great dramatists. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

\ Library JournalWilliams's thoroughly honest memoir, with its open talk of homosexuality, alcoholism/drug addiction, and mental illness, was quite the eyeopener in 1975. His work and partying made him buddies with many famous writers and actors of the day (Capote, Brando, etc.), whom he discusses. Besides all the gossip, the book also provides insight into one of the world's great dramatists. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.\ \