Without Feathers
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Without Feathers
In Without Feathers Allen is at his existential best, as a comic.
The book is written in the years from 1972 to 1975 - The same period he made: Play it Again Sam, Everything..., Sleeper and Love and Death. It is therefor not a surprise that, like in his earlier collection Getting Even, the reader can’t stop laughting through the whole book.
The most hailed of the short stories are The Whore of Mensa and If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists. But Without Feathers also contains two one-act plays, Death and God. The third play in the trilogy, Sex, has never been published (or maybe it never was made (?)). God is a very populair piece among drama groups.
The first four essays, Selections from th Allen Notebook, Examining Psyhic Phenomena, Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets and The Scrolls, are published at Amazon. To read them, just click on their name below.
Contents:
In Without Feathers Allen is at his existential best, as a comic.
The book is written in the years from 1972 to 1975 - The same period he made: Play it Again Sam, Everything..., Sleeper and Love and Death. It is therefor not a surprise that, like in his earlier collection Getting Even, the reader can’t stop laughting through the whole book.
The most hailed of the short stories are The Whore of Mensa and If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists. But Without Feathers also contains two one-act plays, Death and God. The third play in the trilogy, Sex, has never been published (or maybe it never was made (?)). God is a very populair piece among drama groups.
The first four essays, Selections from th Allen Notebook, Examining Psyhic Phenomena, Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets and The Scrolls, are published at Amazon. To read them, just click on their name below.
Contents:
- Selections from the Allen Notebooks
- Examining Psychic Phenomena
- Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets
- The Scrolls
- Lovborg's Women Considered
- The Whore of Mensa
- Death
- The Early Essays
- A Brief, Yet Helpful, Guide to Civil Disobedience
- Match Wits with Inspector Ford
- The Irish Genius
- God
- Fabulous Tales and Mythical Beasts
- But Soft...Real Soft
- If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists
- No Kaddish for Weinstein
- Fine Times: An Oral Memoir
- Slang Origins