Three players of a summer game, and other stories

Tennessee Williams

This is the first collection of short stories by Williams ever to be published in England. It shows every facet of this author's remarkable talent - his tenderness as in The Field of Blue Children, his capacity to shock in the terrifying One Arm, his gift for the macabre in The Coming of Something to the Widow Holly, his uncanny ability to get under the skins of sexual perverts in the pathetic but enormously amusing Two on a Party, and there can seldom have been a more persuasive portrait of a man going to pieces than Brick Pollitt in the volume's title story.