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Guests | October 15, 2009

Michelle Wildgen: IMG A Few Initial and Not-Comprehensive Meditations on Group Novels

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I am a sucker for a book about a group. What reminded me of this was Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age, her homage to Mary McCarthy's endlessly re-readable... Continue »
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Not about Nightingales

by Tennessee Williams

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ISBN13: 9780811213806
ISBN10: 0811213803
Condition: Standard
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Never produced until this year (1998), NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES (1938), portrays a shocking prison scandal in which convicts leading a hunger strike in prison were locked in a steam-heated cell and roasted to death. Williams himself later said that he had never written anything to compare with it in violence and horror. The play indelibly presages the great plays he was later to write.
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ISBN:
9780811213806
Editor:
Hale, Allean
Introduction:
Hale, Allean
Author:
Williams, Tennessee
Author:
Hale, Allean
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Location:
New York :
Subject:
American
Subject:
American drama (dramatic works by one author)
Subject:
Prisons
Subject:
Prisoners
Subject:
Prisons -- United States -- Drama.
Subject:
Prisoners -- United States -- Drama.
Subject:
Prisons -- Drama.
Subject:
Hunger strikes - Drama
Copyright:
1998
Publication Date:
June 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
163
Dimensions:
792x530x52 45
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