Tennessee Williams: A Portrait in Laughter and Lamentation

by Harry Rasky

This book, based on a documentary filmed over the period of a year on the streets of New Orleans and Key West, provides insights about Williams, his most famous characters, and the performances of the actors who played the roles

Genres: Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Rick Patterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Harry Rasky, a considerable artist in his own right, manages to pull off a deft magic trick with this memoir of Tennessee Williams. By claiming to not understand the playwright, by scrupulously recording much of what passed between them in their relationship, by putting himself in the frame as often as not, Rasky convinces us that he does, in fact (and in love), get Williams very very well indeed.

[Leslie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This isn't biography or a memoir, the title calls it a portrait and I think that's accurate--a portait of Williams late in his life, still striving, still trying. Rasky made a documentary about Tennessee Williams and this book relates their interactions during the filming and for the rest of Williams' life. It's a good book for fans of Williams' and I am one of those.

[Isaac Timm · Rating 4 out of 5]

A story of a friendship, no scandal or dirt, just a good conversation between a film maker and a playwright/poet

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