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Tennessee Williams'
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"Few American writers have produced masterworks in more than one genre: who now reads Henry James' plays or the poetry of Hemingway or Faulkner? I regret to note that the publication of Tennessee Williams' Collected Stories will only reinforce the perception that American literary genius is 'genre-bound.' Williams published his first story in 1928, his last in 1978 and the sum total for the 50 years effort was 49 short stories—not one of them likely to survive on its own merits. As a short story writer Williams was careless, often coy or cute in the worst sense and self-indulgent. Even the stories that eventually proved to be the rough material for some of Williams' great plays apparently underwent an essential transformation between narrative and script as if the conception of actors acting breathed new life—and art—into Williams' vision. If you wish to read Williams, turn again to Night of the Iguana or A Streetcar Named Desire: seek out the brilliance in the center ring, not the sad excesses of the sideshow." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)
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Tennessee Williams' Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams' lifetime with previously unpublished or uncollected stories. Arranged chronologically, the forty-nine stories, when taken together with the memoir of his father that serves as a preface, not only establish Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century, but also, in Gore Vidal's view, constitute the real autobiography of Williams' art and inner life.
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This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century.
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About the Author
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo.