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Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes

Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes

A Novel

by Wayne Koestenbaum
Paperback
Publication Date: 07/10/2004

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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.
ISBN:
9781932360530
9781932360530
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
07-10-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Counterpoint
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
204x140x15mm
Weight:
0.26kg
Wayne Koestenbaum

Wayne Koestenbaum is a cultural critic and academic based in New York.

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