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The Night of the Iguana: A Play

Name: The Night of the Iguana: A Play
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ISBN: 9780811220781

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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: "This 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 ("the 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...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

New Directions

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0811220788

ISBN 13:

9780811220781