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Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes / a novel by Wayne Koestenbaum.
LIBRA - Rare PS3561.O349 M65 2004 Mathews copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koestenbaum, Wayne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pianists--Fiction.
- Pianists.
- Bisexual men.
- Sex addicts--Fiction.
- Sex addicts.
- Bisexual men--Fiction.
- New York (State)--Fiction.
- New York (State).
- Circus performers--Fiction.
- Circus performers.
- Americans--France--Fiction.
- Americans.
- France.
- Diaries--Authorship--Fiction.
- Diaries.
- Diaries--Authorship.
- Aigues-Mortes (France)--Fiction.
- Aigues-Mortes (France).
- France--Aigues-Mortes.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Bisexual fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Musical fiction.
- Erotic fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017 (inscription) (Mathews copy)
- Koestenbaum, Wayne (autograph, 26 Sept. '04) (Mathews copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 214 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
- Distribution:
- [Berkeley, California] : Distributed by Publishers Group West.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Pianist Theo Mangrove's planned comeback is imminent, but he's losing his nerve. While restlessly counting down the days until a performance in the French town of Aigues-Mortes, he becomes strangely convinced that Moira Orfei, a 1960s Italian circus queen, must perform with him. As he begins to turn his displaced creativity and relentless sexual energy on a series of male hustlers, random strangers, and music students, Theo wonders whether he will be able to channel his passions into one final celebration of "the partial, the flawed, the almost, the not quite." Peopled by pianists, prostitutes, muses, and manipulators, this debut novel by noted poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum hums with obsessive energy and examines one artist's choices at the crossroads of sex, death, and creativity.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.
- Mathews Collection copy has inscription: "For Harry Mathews-- in honor of your sublime writing -- with deepest admiration, Wayne Koestenbaum 26 Sept. '04 NYC".
- ISBN:
- 1932360530
- 9781932360530
- OCLC:
- 56347877
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