Volume 37, Number 12 · July 19, 1990
The Real Camino
By Donald Windham
Five O'Clock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just, 1948–1982
Knopf, 407 pp., $24.95
Costly Performances: Tennessee Williams: The Last Stage
by Bruce Smith
Paragon House, 262 pp., $19.95
I doubt that anyone who doesn't know Tennessee William's life as well as I do can have as much fun as I did in reading these two books, or can feel quite so much dismay. Or depression. Not that the books are alike. They are, in fact, so different that an innocent reader coming upon them together might well arrive at the conclusion that there isn't a word of truth in either.
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