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Cat on a hot tin roof

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-19832009
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'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.
Main title:
Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams ; with an essay by the author.
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2009.
Collation:
xv, 123 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published in Great Britain: [London] : Martin Secker & Warburg, 1956.
ISBN:
9780141190280
Dewey class:
812.54
Language:
English
Related title:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [ebook]
BRN:
27266
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
City Library-LiteratureLITER 812.54 WILLOn loan - Due: 12 Jul 2026
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