Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
17 August 2009
Pages
144
ISBN
9780141190280

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams

A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is published in Penguin Modern Classics.

‘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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