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I yearned for a bad influence as a boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny.

John Waters
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Tales of Desire

Fictionby Tennessee Williams

“I cannot write any sort of story,” said Tennessee Williams to Gore Vidal, “unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.” The five transgressive Tales of Desire—“The Mysteries of the Joy Rio,” “One Arm,” “Desire and the Black Masseur,” “Hard Candy,” and “The Killer Chicken and the Closet Queen”—show the iconic playwright at his outrageous best. One of the world’s greatest playwrights (The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire) Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was also a master of the short story with “a narrative tone of voice that is totally compelling” (Gore Vidal).

Paperback(published February 1, 2010)

ISBN
9780811218566
Price US
9.95
Price CN
13
Trim Size
4.5x7
Page Count
96
Portrait of Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

America’s playwright

I yearned for a bad influence as a boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny.

John Waters

Disturbing, moving and funny.

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times