Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -

Tennessee Williams

Penguin Classics

2009

144 páginas

4h 48m

ISBN-13: 9780141190280

'Big Daddy’ Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies, jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.

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Traz à tona a família tradicional, quebrada de várias formas, pelos próprios valores impostos pela sociedade. Uma família que só se segura pelo dinheiro do patriarca, enquanto este está na iminência de morrer para uma doença. Um marido que odeia a esposa e os filhos, um filho homossexual porém homofóbico, que não aceita a si mesmo, entre outros casos familiares cotidianos que as famílias de "valor" costumam esconder.