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The Night of the Iguana
The Night of the Iguana | Tennessee Williams
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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 author�s original Foreword, the short story �The Night of the Iguana� which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Kenneth Holditch. �I�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
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Leftcoastzen
The Night of the Iguana | Tennessee Williams
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#JazzyJune #FlashbackFun Tennessee Williams Signet film tie-in books from the vintage stash.

kamoorephoto Ahhh I remember reading Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in secondary school and then we got to watch it in class! I loved it!! That looks like a cool copy! 6y
rubyslippersreads Great covers! 6y
Leftcoastzen @kamoorephoto @rubyslippersreads Thanks!I read Cat , It‘s hard to remember if I read the others..I‘ll figure it out.😂 6y
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Eggs Love these old books🤗👏🏻 6y
erzascarletbookgasm Fun covers! 6y
Leftcoastzen @erzascarletbookgasm @Eggs I find old paperbacks irresistible!Thx! 6y
andrew61 They are great editions - i can almost feel the heat from here, very evocative. 6y
laytonwoman3rd Love those Signets. I have that copy of Cat too. 6y
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The Night of the Iguana | Tennessee Williams
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Williams was an expert at writing broken characters. “I still say that I‘m not a bird, Mr. Shannon, I‘m a human being and when a member of that fantastic species builds a nest in the heart of another, the question of permanence isn‘t the first or even the last thing that‘s considered.” #readathon #deweyApril

readordierachel Lovely reading spot! 6y
AvidReader25 @readordierachel Thanks! It‘s our front porch and the weather was perfect today! 6y
ReadingSusan What a nice view! There was too much pollen here today to sit outside 😭 6y
AvidReader25 @ReadingSusan It was beautiful out, but my allergies are definitely acting up now. 😆 6y
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