Night Of The Iguana Pa

by Williams,Tennessee

• ISBN13: 9780811218528
• ISBN10: 081121852X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-30
• Publisher: New Directions

Summary

Williams wrote: 'œThis is a play about love in its purest terms.' It is also Williams'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 women's college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather, Jonathan Coffin ('œthe world's oldest living and practicing poet'), 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 author's original Foreword, the short story 'œThe Night of the Iguana' which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Kenneth Holditch. 'œI'm tired of conducting services in praise and worship of a senile delinquent'”yeah, that'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 this'¦this'¦this angry, petulant old man.' '”The Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon, from The Night of the Iguana