内容简介

A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is publish ed 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.

作者简介

Tennessee 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 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 s...

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精彩摘录

布里克对自己和玛吉的惩罚出于的那种罪恶感未必是同性恋的压抑，更不是对同性恋的憎恶，不过由于缺乏对人家的同情，使他听了斯基普醉醺醺地在电话里坦白，就把电话挂断了（正如《街车》一剧中布兰琪对艾伦•格雷那样“冷酷”），大爹对此责怪他说，“你呀！宁可替你朋友掘好坟墓，再把他一脚踢进坟里去！”电话挂断的那下卡嗒声就此成为布里克学他朋友借酒自戕，等着听的“卡嗒声”的回响。

——引自第297页

因为我们两个好上了就能感到跟你更亲近些。……所以我们两个就好上了，两个人都把对方当成你的化身！

——引自第51页