A House Not Meant to Stand
Subtitle: A Gothic Comedy (New Directions Paperbook)
Contributors: Gregory Mosher (Foreword); Thomas Keith (Editor)
Publisher: New Directions
Published: April 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780811217095
Subjects: American; Drama / American; Drama; Plays / Drama; Plays
Description: "Christmas 1982: Cornelius and Bella McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, return one stormy midnight from the funeral of their older son to a house and a life literally falling apart--daughter Joanie is in an asylum and their younger son Charlie is upstairs having sex with his pregnant, holy-roller girlfriend as the McCorkles enter. In this dark, expressionistic comedy, what he called his "Southern Gothic Spook Sonata," Williams brilliantly chronicles the fragile state of our world"--Page 4 of cover.