The glass menagerie /
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New Directions,
1999, ©1945.
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| Edition: | Paper ed. |
| Series: | New Directions paperbook
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| Summary: | Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 105 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Audience: | Adult Adult. |
| ISBN: | 0329224441 0329608886 0811214044 9780329224448 9780329608880 9780811214049 |