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After reading this gem of a book, I was wishing Williams had written more novels. Brief but complex, filled with themes and characters that are very representative of the Williams world as we know it from the theater, this sharp, cruel, witty, moving novel shines through its exquisite style and profound, bittersweet intelligence. For some reasons, it made me think of Truman Capote, too. It’s ambiguous on many levels, yet remarkably frank on some other ones, especially sexuality. Vivien Leigh gave a bravura performance as Mrs Stone in the early sixties, and I couldn’t help but think about her when reading the novel, but Williams� own Mrs Stone may be less tragic, and more full of life and vibrancy, than Leigh’s version. Interestingly, I saw the ending of the movie � which is very faithful to the ending of the book � as the symbolic approach of death. But In Williams� book, it can also be interpreted as the approach of a renewed freedom. In any case, here’s a remarkable novel that deserves to better known.