Williams wrote: his is a play about love in its purest terms.?It is also Williams 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 college, the self-described New England spinster Hannah Jelkes and her ninety-seven-year-old grandfather, Jonathan Coffin (he world 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 original Foreword, the short story he Night of the Iguana?which was the germ for the play, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Kenneth Holditch. tired of conducting services in praise and worship of a senile delinquenteah, that 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 thishishis angry, petulant old man.?/em> he Rev. T. Lawrence Shannon, from The Night of the Iguana
The Night of the Iguana
- 作者： Williams, Tennessee
- 出版社： New
- 出版日期： 2009-10-30
- ISBN碼： 9780811218528
- 編號： 203c308316447
$ 502 元
原價 558