A House Not Meant to Stand
- A House Not Meant to Stand
A House Not Meant to Stand is the last play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams in 1982, published in 2008 for the first time by New Directions. 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.
Plot
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.
References
*http://www.ndpublishing.com/books/williamsthouse.html
External Links
* [http://www.ndpublishing.com/ New Directions Publishing Corporation]
*http://www.hipsterbookclub.com/reviews/copy/0608/house_not_meant_to_stand_tennessee_williams.html Review from hipsterbookclub.com]
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