The glass menagerie

The Glass Menagerie was Tennesse Williams's first dramatic success. Though he went on to write such unforgettable plays as A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, it remains in the minds of many his most moving masterpiece, his most perfectly wrought triumph. The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor, it brings to life human beings who cling to a dream world that can so easily be shattered into jagged pieces, as illusion is destroyed by reality. (back cover)