Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #834713 in Books
• Published on: 1994-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 602 pages

Synopsis
A chronological arrangement of the noted American playwright's complete stories, published and unpublished, provides a veiled look at his life and concerns.

Customer Reviews

The human warmth of Williams
Collected Stories
Williams began life as a poet and more importantly as a short story writer before eventually establishing himself as a playwright. His stories are not widely accessible but should be better known. The best of them come early in his career. From his apprentice years in the thirties there are some very competent pieces, if not particularly distinctive. But by the forties and early fifties he began to confront his homosexual tensions more directly than we see in the plays and these stories have an emotional warmth which more than anything is Williams' great quality as a writer. Forget the stereotyping of him in all those study guides as sex and violence dished up in melodrama. Williams is great because above all else, more than Miller or Albee or Mamet and certainly more than Pinter, he cares deeply and sincerely about his characters. Unfortunately by the sixties, as with his plays, and later with his Memoirs, there is a serious falling off and he turns into the showman. But this was not before he had created a substantial number of fine and some great stories. If you like 'Streetcar' or 'Glass Menagerie' or 'Summer and Smoke' get a hold of these stories and enjoy!