| A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur: Play Contributor(s): Williams, Tennessee (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811207579 ISBN-13: 9780811207577 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1980 Annotation: Focusing on one morning and one encounter of four women. Williams once again skillfully explores, with comic irony and great tenderness, the meaning of loneliness, the need for human connection, as well as the inevitable compromises one must make to get through 'the long run of life.' |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General |
| Dewey: 812.54 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Series: Play in Two Scenes |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 4.9" W x 7.8" (0.25 lbs) 94 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It is a warm June morning in the West End of St. Louis in the mid-thirties--a lovely Sunday for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. But Dorothea, one of Tennessee Williams's most engaging marginally youthful, forever hopeful Southern belles, is home waiting for a phone call from the principal of the high school where she teaches civics--the man she expects to fulfill her deferred dreams of romance and matrimony. Williams's unerring dialogue reveals each of the four characters of A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur with precision and clarity: Dorothea, who does even her setting-up exercises with poignant flutters; Bodey, her German roommate, who wants to pair Dotty with her beer-drinking twin, Buddy, thereby assuring nieces, nephews, and a family for both herself and Dotty; Helena, a fellow teacher, with the eyes of a predatory bird, who would like to rescue Dotty from her vulgar, common surroundings and substitute an elegant but sterile spinster life; and Miss Gluck, a newly orphaned and distraught neighbor, whom Bodey comforts with coffee and crullers while Helena mocks them both. Focusing on one morning and one encounter of four women, Williams once again skillfully explores, with comic irony and great tenderness, the meaning of loneliness, the need for human connection, as well as the inevitable compromises one must make to get through the long run of life. |
Contributor Bio(s): Williams, Tennessee: - 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. |