The Night of the Iguana (New Directions Paperbook)

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The Night of the Iguana (New Directions Paperbook)

Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based.

Williams wrote: â€œThis is a play about love in its purest terms.â€ It is also Williamsâ€™s robust and persuasive plea for endurance and resistance in the face of human suffering. The earthy widow Maxine Faulk is proprietress of a rundown hotel at the edge of a Mexican cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean where the defrocked Rev. Shannon, his tour group of ladies from a West Texas womenâ€™s college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather, Jonathan Coffin (â€œthe worldâ€™s oldest living and practicing poetâ€), a family of grotesque Nazi vacationers, and an iguana tied by its throat to the veranda, all find themselves assembled for a rainy and turbulent night.

This is the first trade paperback edition of The Night of the Iguana and comes with an Introduction by award-winning playwright Doug Wright, the authorâ€™s original Foreword, the short story â€œThe Night of the Iguanaâ€ which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Kenneth Holditch.

â€œIâ€™m tired of conducting services in praise and worship of a senile delinquentâ€”yeah, thatâ€™s what I said, I shouted! All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent and, by God, I will not and cannot continue to conduct services in praise and worship of thisâ€¦thisâ€¦this angry, petulant old man.â€

â€”The Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon, from The Night of the Iguana

Country	USA
Author	Tennessee Williams
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9780811220781
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
NumberOfPages	191
PublicationDate	2009-10-30
Publisher	New Directions
ReleaseDate	2012-12-15
Studio	New Directions

The Night of the Iguana (New Directions Paperbook)

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