The Night of the Iguana (New Directions Paperbook)

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
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2009-10-30
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2009-10-30
Format	Kindle eBook

The Night of the Iguana (New Directions Paperbook)

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