The Night of the Iguana [Paperback]

Williams wrote: This is a play about love in its purest terms. It is also Williamss 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 womens college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather, Jonathan Coffin (the worlds 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.In the end he is simply a superb storyteller.Now published for the first time as a trade paperback with a new introduction and the short story on which it was based.