The Glass Menagerie

Author: Tennessee Williams

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  • : $24.95 AUD
  • : 9780141190266
  • : Penguin UK
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  • : February 2009
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 6mm
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  • : Tennessee Williams
  • : Penguin Modern Classics
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780141190266
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Description

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.

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