{"product_id":"9780811217095","title":"A House Not Meant to Stand: A Gothic Comedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe spellbinding last full-length play produced during the author's lifetime is now published for the first time.\u003cbr\u003eChristmas 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.\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021583794416,"sku":"9780811217095","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811217095_p0.jpg?v=1763747015","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811217095","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}