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West Coast Rare Books

West Coast Rare Books

Westport / Ireland

Williams, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

Williams, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

Williams, Tennessee. Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. First UK Edition. London, Secker & Warburg, 1956. 20.5cm x 13.3cm. xiv, 197 pages. Original Hardcover with original price-clipped dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent, very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear to the dustjacket.

The plot in no way conveys the impact of this comic tragedy, which is primarily a stripping of souls. An old man, rich, powerful and ruthless, is dying but refuses death. One son, with a wife and brood of children, is angling for possession of his broad acres and vast millions. The other, the beloves son, has withdrawn from the world he finds abhorrent into a Nirvana of drink. It is around his inner anguish that the play revolves and round his relations to his father, mother, his dead and perhaps too-dearly-beloved friend from college, and around his wife. She is ‘Maggie the Cat,’ who will not be denied. She, too, covets the inheritance. She demands her husband’s attentions; she will force the citadel of disgust. By a ruse she wins in the end a brief and questionable victory.

Our price: EUR 120,-- 

Williams-Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Williams-Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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