This is a 1950 novella by Tennessee Williams about a fading actress who retires to Rome and hooks up with a young Italian — with passionate, and no doubt unfortunate, results. It should be available at the library, but you can also get it for 99 cents plus shipping on Amazon. Shall we start on April 3?
Excellent! Sounds like fun.
ReplyDeleteCool! I'm looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteWow. This book starts "At five o'clock in the afternoon, which was late in March, the stainless blue of the sky over Rome had begun to pale."
ReplyDeleteSo reading this caters to my own kind of March Madness.
My copy is waiting for me at the Raven. I'll get it this afternoon.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that struck me about this: Williams' empathy with women past their prime. I'm thinking Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire."
ReplyDeleteYes, exactly, Shanxi. I was thinking I should read or see "Streetcar" before we start discussing on the 3rd because Blanche keeps popping to mind, but I don't remember enough details to make a good comparison!
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