Love! Valor! Compassion! and a Perfect Ganesh (Movie Tie-In)

By Terrence McNally

Book Overview

Beautifully written, moving, and very funny, Love Valour Compassion gathers together eight gay men at the upstate New York summer house of a celebrated dancer-choreographer who fears he is losing his creativity...and possibly his lover. Infidelity, flirtations, soul-searching, AIDS, truth-telling, and skinny-dipping mix monumental questions about life and death with a wacky dress rehearsal for Swan Lake performed in drag. The result is a cross between a gay Big Chill and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. To read it is to join in a dance of life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452279305
• ISBN13: 9780452279308
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Plume Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

excellent

One of the most endearing plays of the 1990's, McNally reaches into the heart of the audience and never lets go. The magical thing about Love! Valour! Compassion! is that even though it details the lives of eight gay men in upstate New York, anyone, gay or stright, man or woman, can relate to it. A fine piece of drama that stands as a testament to the human soul, McNally shows us once again that life consists of successes and failures, truth and lies, and of course, love, valour, and compassion.