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Moise and the World of Reason

By Tennessee Williams
Moise and the World of Reason by Tennessee Williams digital book - Fable

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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.

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3.5
“though this book was on the raunchy side for me, it did have some merits that pushed me to finish it. it's a quintessential greenwich village scene from the seventies, all contemplating life and denying their need for love yet at the same time desperately trying to fulfill it. everyone feels incomplete, leaving Moise to retire from the "world of reason" and remain in her one room apartment on bleecker. the book is from the main character's "blue jays" (school notebooks) that he'd written whilst experiencing all of the things that took place. overall it had some quotable parts but was slightly exaggerated drama for tennessee in my opinion. I've read a lot of his works, and this is certainly my least favorite. I wasn't really hooked until towards the end when *spoiler* Moise starts to lose it. Some of her trancelike speeches are quite beautiful. Three stars just for that.”

About Tennessee Williams

 Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) was America’s most influential playwright. Readers have devoured his poetry, essays, short stories, and letters, as well as his fantastic late plays, his remarkable corpus of one-acts, and his greatest plays—The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana, The Rose Tattoo, Suddenly Last Summer, and Camino Real. Williams is a cornerstone of New Directions—we publish everything he wrote. He is also our single bestselling author.

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