San Antonio College Library

The embattled Wingfield family: Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, dominating mother, who hopes to match her daughter with an eligible "gentleman caller;" Laura, a lame and painfully shy, she evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to a world of make-believe; Tom's sole support of the family, he eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura. The only single edition now available...

Story of star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of Depression-era St. Louis, where gangsters, jobless wayfarers, socialist agitators, and young writers and artists of the WPA haunt the waterfront in the shadow of the Eads Bridge.