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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.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
- Language
- Released
- 2009
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €6.19
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- Title
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Tennessee Williams
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN10
- 0141190280
- ISBN13
- 9780141190280
- Series
- Tags
- Family, USA, Relationships, Plants, American Literature, School, Death, Theatre Plays, Comedies, Adapted for Film, America, Diseases, High School, Family relationships, Herbs, Matura Exam, Heritage, American South, Pulitzer Prize
- First published
- 1955
- Original title
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- '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.