His Other Life: Searching for My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams - Softcover

McCabe, Melanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608011348 ISBN 13: 9781608011346

Verlag: UNIV OF NEW ORLEANS PR, 2017

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"Finding clues sends her down a rabbit hole of biographies, old pictures, ancestral records, letters, unpublished novels, court documents, and desperate cross-country searches for living descendants; each new piece is another layer to an increasingly complex puzzle. A compelling personal and literary detective story." -- Kirkus Reviews "Kirkus Reviews"

"McCabe's eloquent determination to investigate this mystery, sleuthing online, contacting descendants, and entering archives full of "carbon paper and ghosts," gives His Other Life a historical and literary resonance that is charged with modern energy." -- Meg Nola "Foreword Reviews"

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When Melanie McCabe's father died in 1973, she learned a startling truth about his life before he settled into a quiet suburban existence. Terrence McCabe had been married before; his first wife, Hazel, was Tennessee Williams' childhood sweetheart; and Williams wrote characters based on both of them, and their marriage, into his plays.
As an adult, Melanie set off to discover the real story behind her father's former life, enlisting help from librarians, amateur genealogists, and Tennessee Williams' own writings to fill in the blanks. At the center of the investigation is the perplexing death of Hazel, who died at age 38 while living in Mexico City. Was it suicide? Was it an accident? And who was the unknown man with her when she died?
Part memoir, part love story, part gripping mystery, His Other Life is moving for what it reveals about the tragedies of falling in love, getting married, and trying to create a life.

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• Verlag: UNIV OF NEW ORLEANS PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1608011348
• ISBN 13: 9781608011346
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252