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Small Craft Warnings

by Tennessee Williams · 1972

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Williams sets up camp on O'Neill's turf: a bar at the end of the world, shrouded in ocean fog, in which a collection of misfits huddle like birds evading a storm. Unlike O'Neill's eternally damned pipe-dreamers, Williams' crass menagerie of barflies (an itinerant beautician, her loutish boyfriend, a lovesick short-order cook, the girl he's in love with, and an alcoholic doctor) survive on hope and the possibility of heaven.

Genre
literary fiction
Themes
theatre
Setting
1970s
Audience
adult
Form
plays

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