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The Night of the Iguana

by Tennessee Williams · 1961

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At a shabby hotel in Mexico, c 1940, various American tourists, including a defrocked minister and a moody spinster, are unsettled, body and soul, by the bawdy broad who's running the joint. Sensual and poetic by the great Tennessee Williams.

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1960s1960sMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of thisAmerican SouthAmerican SouthMore like thisLess of thisMexicoMexicoMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 208 pages
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