Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Name: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Le Pitch

Dans le Sud profond américain, Tennessee Williams nous plonge dans un drame brûlant de désir, d'avarice et de tromperie. Big Daddy Pollitt, le plus riche planteur de coton du delta du Mississippi, s'apprête à fêter son soixante-cinquième anniversaire. Ses deux fils sont de retour pour l'occasion : Gooper avec sa femme et ses enfants, et Brick, un ancien héros du football américain devenu alcoolique, accompagné de sa fougueuse épouse Maggie. Au fil de cette chaude soirée d'été, les apparences de bonheur familial et de gentillesse sudiste s'effritent peu à peu, laissant place à des vérités dérangeantes. La cupidité, les mensonges, la jalousie et la sexualité refoulée menacent d'atteindre leur paroxysme. Adaptée au cinéma avec Elizabeth Taylor et Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof est un portrait magistral des tensions familiales et des individus piégés dans leurs propres prisons. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

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4ème de couverture

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.Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961), and Small Craft Warnings (1972).If you enjoyed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, you might like Williams's The Glass Menagerie, also published in Penguin Modern Classics.'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself ... he is, quite simply, indispensable'Peter Shaffer, author of EquusBiographie de l'auteurTennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis so

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Le Pitch

Dans le Sud profond américain, Tennessee Williams nous plonge dans un drame brûlant de désir, d'avarice et de tromperie. Big Daddy Pollitt, le plus riche planteur de coton du delta du Mississippi, s'apprête à fêter son soixante-cinquième anniversaire. Ses deux fils sont de retour pour l'occasion : Gooper avec sa femme et ses enfants, et Brick, un ancien héros du football américain devenu alcoolique, accompagné de sa fougueuse épouse Maggie. Au fil de cette chaude soirée d'été, les apparences de bonheur familial et de gentillesse sudiste s'effritent peu à peu, laissant place à des vérités dérangeantes. La cupidité, les mensonges, la jalousie et la sexualité refoulée menacent d'atteindre leur paroxysme. Adaptée au cinéma avec Elizabeth Taylor et Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof est un portrait magistral des tensions familiales et des individus piégés dans leurs propres prisons. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

Détails du livre

Titre complet

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Auteur

Editeur

Format

Broché

Publication

05 mars 2009

Pages

144

Taille

19.8 x 12.9 x 0.8 cm

Poids

112

ISBN-13

9780141190280

Contenu

4ème de couverture

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.Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and 1955. Among his many other plays Penguin have published The Glass Menagerie (1944), The Rose Tattoo (1951), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), The Night of the Iguana (1961), and Small Craft Warnings (1972).If you enjoyed Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, you might like Williams's The Glass Menagerie, also published in Penguin Modern Classics.'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself ... he is, quite simply, indispensable'Peter Shaffer, author of EquusBiographie de l'auteurTennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis so