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a fine copy in the original dust jacket. signed by Tennessee a special copy owned by his mother Edwina Williams who lived on Wydown in Clayton Missouri until her death. fine a rare near fine dust jacket. signed boldly in ink on the title page. a special copy of one of his greatest plays. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. "Tennessee Williams never wrote a more explosive play than Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams that is one of Williams's best-known works and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955.