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Paperback The Road to Memphis Book

ISBN: 0140360778

ISBN13: 9780140360776

The Road to Memphis

(Book #6 in the Logans Series)

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A stunning repackage of a companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson As America hovers on the brink of war,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
KNOWN FACT: This was Tennessee Williams' least favorite play.

Summer and Smoke has always been my favorite Williams' play, even though he himself thought it was too melodramatic. The story concerns a woman named Alma Winemiller, an Episcopal minister's daughter in the town of Glorious Hill, Mississippi at the turn of the century. She's been in love with the boy next door since she was a little girl; John Buchanan, Jr. John, Magna Cum Laude from Johns Hopkins, has recently returned...

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Rated 4 stars
The Flesh and the Spirit

Tennessee Williams's SUMMER AND SMOKE meditates on the flesh and the spirit, symbolically exploring their conflict and the role they play in human happiness. We witness here the damaging effect of embracing one at the expense of the other, for in the end we are left with the idea that one must complement the other if our lives are to be fulfilled. The play, like TW's other seminal works, takes place in the American...

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Beautiful, lyrical, haunting

This play was originally a failure when it was produced on Broadway. It was not until the 1952 Circle in the Square production directed by Jose Quintero and starring Geraldine Page (who also played the part to perfection in the 1962 film version) that the show became a success. The original production must have been poorly done, because the play is a masterpiece even when one simply reads it. An allegory that takes place...

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