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The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

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Sep 10, 2012 Kristin rated it did not like it · review of another edition

It's a play and has very little to do with glass animals. Therefore, I lost interest quickly, but since it was only 144 pages long, I finished. Seems likely the animals in the glass menagerie are some sort of symbolism, but I'm not in grade school anymore and am not going to waste my time figuring out exactly what it is. Instead, this play is the story of a mother, Amanda, abandoned by her husband and trying to figure out the futures of her adult children. Tom, her son, works in a factory and go ...more

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Nov 28, 2011 Joanna rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, 2011-read, rws-2011-winter

The audio quality of the performance of the play was less that I'd hoped. It was great to have a full cast recording, complete with music and sound, but there were moments when the characters were extremely difficult to hear on this version.

The best part about this CD collection is hearing Tennessee Williams read portions of the play. He has a wonderful voice and his renditions really brought the portions that he read to life.

I don't believe I've ever seen a performance of The Glass Menagerie li ...more

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