{"product_id":"memoirs","title":"Memoirs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Williams, Tennessee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 06-12-2007\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780141189291\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nWhen\u003cbr\u003e\nMemoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media--though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwright were called \"a raw display of private life\" by\u003cbr\u003e\nThe New York Times Book Review. As it turns out, more than thirty years later, Williams' look back at his life is not quite so scandalous as it once seemed; he recalls his childhood in Mississippi and St. Louis, his prolonged struggle as a \"starving artist,\" the \"overnight\" success of\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Glass Menagerie in 1945, the death of his long-time companion Frank Merlo in 1962, and his confinement to a psychiatric ward in 1969 and subsequent recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, all with the same directness, compassion, and insight that epitomize his plays.\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nTennessee 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 evenings 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\u003cbr\u003e\nBattle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Glass Menagerie (1944),\u003cbr\u003e\nA Streetcar Named Desire (1947),\u003cbr\u003e\nSummer and Smoke (1948),\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Rose Tattoo (1951),\u003cbr\u003e\nCamino Real(1953),\u003cbr\u003e\nCat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955),\u003cbr\u003e\nOrpheus Descending (1957),\u003cbr\u003e\nSweet Bird of Youth (1959),\u003cbr\u003e\nPeriod of Adjustment (1960),\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Night of the Iguana (1961),\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963; revised 1964) and\u003cbr\u003e\nSmall Craft Warnings (1972). He died in 1983.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780141189291\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.0 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49087612649776,"sku":"Prakash_9780141189291","price":594.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/penguin-classics-book-default-title-memoirs-38800535552304.jpg?v=1753011699","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/products\/memoirs","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}