{"product_id":"a-house-not-meant-to-stand-a-gothic-comedy-new-directions-paperbook","title":"A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy (New Directions Paperbook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0811217094\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Williams, Tennessee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time. Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return home one midnight in a thunderstorm from the Memphis funeral of their older son to a house and a life literally falling apart--daughter Joanie is in an insane asylum and their younger son Charlie is upstairs having sex with his pregnant, holy-roller girlfriend as the McCorkles enter. Cornelius, who has political ambitions and a litany of health problems, is trying to find a large amount of moonshine money his gentle wife Bella has hidden somewhere in their collapsing house, but his noisy efforts are disrupted by a stream of remarkable characters, both living and dead.While Williams often used drama to convey hope and desperation in human hearts, it was through this dark, expressionistic comedy, which he called a \"Southern gothic spook sonata,\" that he was best able to chronicle his vision of the fragile state of our world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49681192911088,"sku":"NEW0811217094","price":20.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/a-house-not-meant-to-stand-a-gothic-comedy-new-directions-paperbook","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}