The Glass Menagerie

Name: The Glass Menagerie
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.31 (13 reviews)
Author: Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 9781662112263

Author: Tennessee Williams

Narrator: Yosef Kent

Unabridged: 1 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Author's Republic

Published: 04/28/2020

Categories: Fiction, Drama

Synopsis

The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Laura.

About Tennessee Williams

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on April 10, 2020

Oh Laura. Poor damaged Laura. If there has ever been a more sensitive and poignant portrayal of mental illness than Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, I have yet to come across it. Laura breaks my heart. It is impossible not to love her and want to shelter her from the world. She is a unicorn am......more

Goodreads review by Jim on November 14, 2023

Many of us know the story set in a dingy tenement: a mother and her adult son and daughter. If the phrase ‘lives of quiet desperation' has any meaning, it’s here in this stage play. The fragility of daughter Laura is symbolized by the tiny glass animals she collects and her life of dusting them and......more