{"product_id":"hard-candy-stories-9780811202213","title":"Hard Candy: Stories","description":"\u003cem\u003eHard Candy\u003c\/em\u003e contains Tennessee Williams's short stories written after the publication of his first collection of short fiction, \u003cem\u003eOne Arm\u003c\/em\u003e, and before the stories appearing in \u003cem\u003eThe Knightly Quest\u003c\/em\u003e. These volumes have established him as an original, compelling, and honest master of the short story. The stories in \u003cem\u003eHard Candy\u003c\/em\u003e display Mr. Williams's mastery of several very different styles. \"Three Players of a Summer Game,\" for instance, is as powerful and moving a study of the disintegration of an individual as \u003cem\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire\u003c\/em\u003e. The delicate and luminous nostalgia of \"The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin\" will remind readers of \u003cem\u003eThe Glass Menagerie\u003c\/em\u003e. Other stories, like \"Two on a Party,\" are more colloquial and brittle; and one--\"The Coming of Something to the Widow Holly\"--is an excursion into ironical fantasy. Yet each of the stories demonstrates, in its different way, the characteristic blend of psychological penetration with compassion and understanding that has marked Tennessee Williams's successes in the theater.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliams, Tennessee:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eTennessee Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including \u003cem\u003eThe Glass Menagerie\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCamino Real, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eCat on a Hot Tin Roof\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOrpheus Descending\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Night of the Iguana\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Rose Tattoo\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845442998546,"sku":"9780811202213","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cd2a9ce5-867d-47b4-a112-d518965c5829.jpg?v=1737351011","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hard-candy-stories-9780811202213","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}