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Condition: Very Good [First British edition] Jacket: worn at edges, discoloured / lightly soiled and with two tears (4.5cm & 1.5cm) on front. Boards (light grey with white lettering): very slight crushing of lower spine, very slight curling of corners, very slight discolouring of edges. Page edges mottled. Previous bookseller's price and marking in pencil on front and rear endpapers. Pages otherwise clean. Binding tight. Frontispiece has photograph of "Deborah Kerr as LAURA REYNOLDS and John Kerr as TOM LEE in a scene from the film of Tea and Sympathy (MGM)". The cast list of the original UK production is included in the text. Plot / Content: "The action takes place in an American High School and is the story of a sensitive boy of divorced parents who, because of his artistic sensibility and imagined homosexual tendencies, is baited by the boys and cruelly persecuted by the adults. The one exception is the housemaster's wife, a lonely and loving woman who is as attractive as she is understanding. She determines to save the boy from the disgrace that threatens him and gives him the opportunity of proving how groundless are the accusations made against him." (from the cover) Background / Biography: Robert Woodruff Anderson (28 April 1917 - 9 February 2009) was an American playwright, screenwriter and theatre producer. Tea and Sympathy was his first play. continued on Wikipedia Reviews: "This is a powerful play, superbly written. It has been a great success in America, France and Italy and is now being presented by the New Watergate Theatre Club at the Comedy Theatre. Tea and Sympathy has also been filmed by MGM with Deborah Kerr and John Kerr taking the leading parts". (from the cover) Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "LAURA The facts! What facts! An innocent boy goes swimming with an instructor - whom he likes because this instructor is one of the few who encourage him, who don't ride him. - And because he's off-horse, you and the rest of them are only too glad to put two and two together and get a false answer - anything which will let you go on and persecute a boy whom you basically don't like. If it had happened with Al or anybody else, you would have done nothing. BILL It would have been an entirely different matter. You can't escape from what you are - your character. Why do they spend so much time in the law courts on character witnesses? To prove this was the kind of man who could or could not commit such a crime." from Act III Secondhand booksellers |
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