Excellent look at Williams' life and times - occasionally reads like a series of in depth New Yorker profiles cobbled together but since those profiles are in depth that's okay. Very well researched, beautifully written, it analyses Williams' life and how it informed his work and vice versa. A had just read Williams' memoirs and this counter balanced it beautifully.
Full of exotic characters - the star, plus Elia Kazan, Audrey Wood, Maria St Just, Diana Barrymore (they were mates), Frank Merlo and so on. Worthy look at one of our greatest writers, even if he was a shit a lot of the times.
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