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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to adjust to her aimless new life in Rome. She is adjusting, too, to aging. ("The knowledge that her beauty was lost had come upon her recently and it was still occasionally forgotten.") With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo: "As compelling, as fascinating, and as technically skillful as his play" (Publishers Weekly).… (más)
Williams' fantasy of what transpired. This is truly an expose so take it seriously. Don't go over there expecting those big brutes to just up and stop because they won't. And you might wind up becoming as lonely, desperate and bitter as she did. ( )
I'm not at all a fan of Tennessee Williams. The fact that the one Williams play I particularly like, Camino Real, is not that typical of Williams probably speaks for my feelings about him. But The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (really more a novella than a novel) was much better than I expected, perhaps because its "American abroad" aspect somehow reminded me of Henry James. ( )
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At five o'clock in the afternoon, which was late in March, the stainless blue of the sky over Rome had begun to pale and the blue transparency of the narrow streets had gathered a faint opacity of vapour.
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Mrs Stone looked up at the sky which gave her the impression of having suddenly paused. She smiled to herself, and whispered, Look! I've stopped the drift!
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is vintage Tennessee Williams. Published in 1950, his first novel was acclaimed by Gore Vidal as "splendidly written, precise, short, complete, and fine." It is the story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from the theatre, as Mrs. Stone tries to adjust to her aimless new life in Rome. She is adjusting, too, to aging. ("The knowledge that her beauty was lost had come upon her recently and it was still occasionally forgotten.") With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo: "As compelling, as fascinating, and as technically skillful as his play" (Publishers Weekly).
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