VINTAGE CLASSICS : COLLECTED STORIES OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS PB – TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

" Disturbing, moving, and funny; these stories help amplify Williams s tragic vision, for like the plays, they underline his preoccupation and insight into the conflicts of the human heart New York Times Acclaimed as one of America s most successful playwrights, Tennessee Williams also published four volumes of short stories. In Collected Stories, these volumes are combined with a wealth of unpublished and uncollected work, ranging from his first his story published in `Weird Tales when William was seventeen, to his later frank homosexual fantasies. Williams was famous for insisting he write every morning. Even during his darkest days, while mourning a lover, or abusing some substance – he would write. The Collected Stories are from every period of his life, and recreate the milieux Williams knew and chronicled so movingly – from his gypsy youth in St. Louis and New Orleans to his days of celebrity in Hollywood and New York. The two ingredients of Williams s plays – great gab and steamy sex – are both here in the stories Edmund White, Sunday Times"