{"product_id":"the-night-of-the-iguana-9780811218528","title":"The Night of the Iguana","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is the first trade paperback edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Night of the Iguana\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --The Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon, from \u003cem\u003eThe Night of the Iguana\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliams, Tennessee:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eTennessee Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including \u003cem\u003eThe Glass Menagerie\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Streetcar Named Desire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCamino Real, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eCat on a Hot Tin Roof\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOrpheus Descending\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Night of the Iguana\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Rose Tattoo\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWright, Doug:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDoug Wright\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eI Am My Own Wife\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for best play of 2004, and the Obie Award-winning play \u003cem\u003eQuills\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50556491399442,"sku":"9780811218528","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e396c4d8-58cd-48ea-a6e2-7ad84ec761be.jpg?v=1731755137","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-night-of-the-iguana-9780811218528","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}