Moise and the World of Reason - Softcover

Williams, Tennessee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811225615 ISBN 13: 9780811225618

Publisher: New Directions, 2016

Synopsis

What’s not to like about Tennessee Williams’s most forthright work about homosexual love, with its gay figure skaters, runaways, and sex?

An erotic, sensual, and comic novel that was a generation ahead of its time, Moise and the World of Reason has at its center the need of three people for each other: Lance, the beautiful black figure skater full of love and lust for young men as well as a craving for drugs; the nameless gay young narrator, a runaway writer from Alabama who lives near the piers of New York City’s West Village, c. 1975, frantically filling notebooks with his observations; and Moise, a young woman who speaks in riddles and can never finish her paintings or consummate her affairs.

 The long unavailable Moise and the World of Reason represents a kind of uncensored Williams, radically frank, fully articulated, and deeply tender: a true gem.

About this title

About the Author:

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo.

Review:

“Lovely writing. Some of his descriptive passages unfold like dark flowers. There’s charm, grace, beauty here. Moise has the sound and feel of art.”
- The Washington Post

“In terms of sexual candor, Moise and the World of Reason is Williams’s most liberated statement. There is a bristling wit here, charm, and temperament.”
- The New Republic

“The novel bears the playwright’s familiar stamp on almost every page. And underlying the novel is Mr. Williams’s message that if people can only find a little love in the dark night―a little warmth, a little kindness, a hand extended across the chasm―they will be saved from the icy world of reason that so oppresses them.”
- The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0811225615
• ISBN 13: 9780811225618
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224