内容简介
'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the
Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday.
His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife
and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to
drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening
unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility
gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies,
jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point.
Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, "Cat on
a Hot Tin Roof" is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and
individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.
作者简介
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi,
where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father,
a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years
later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to
city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after
a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He
stayed there for two years, spending the evening writing. He
entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at
the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great
diversity. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his
play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and
1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published Summer and
Smoke (1948), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Camino Real (1953), Baby Doll
(1957), Orpheus Descending (1957), Something Unspoken (1958),
Suddenly Last Summer (1958), Period of Adjustment (1960), The Night
of the Iguana (1961), The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
(1963), and Small Craft Warnings (1972). Tennessee Williams died in
1983.