The Glass Menagerie Av Tennessee Williams

<p>Tennessee Williams''s evocation of loneliness and lost love, <i>The Glass Menagerie</i> is one of his most powerful and moving plays. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes a new introduction by Robert Bray.<br><br>Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield comforts herself with recollections of her earlier, more gracious life in Blue Mountain when she was pursued by ''gentleman callers''. Her son Tom, a poet with a job in a warehouse, longs for adventure and escape from his mother''s suffocating embrace, while Laura, her shy crippled daughter, has her glass menagerie and her memories. Amanda is desperate to find her daughter a husband, but when the long-awaited gentleman caller does arrive, Laura''s romantic illusions are crushed.<br><br>Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. 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