O'Neill: Son and Artist; Volume II

Scheaffer, Louis

ISBN 10: 0815412444 / ISBN 13: 9780815412441

Editore: Cooper Square Press, 2002

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Riassunto:

The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) won four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for a body of work that includes The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms, and Long Day's Journey into Night. His life, the direct source for so much of his art, was one of personal tumult from the very beginning. The son of a famous actor and a quiet, morphine-addicted mother, O'Neill had experienced alcoholism, a collapse of his health, and bouts of mania while still a young man. Based on years of extensive research and access to previously untapped sources, Sheaffer's authoritative biography examines how the pain of O'Neill's childhood fed his desire to write dramas and affected his artistically successful and emotionally disastrous life.

Informazioni sull?autore: Louis Sheaffer (1912-1997), a former reporter and press agent, was awarded three Guggenheim fellowships and a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities for his work on O'Neill.

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Titolo: O'Neill: Son and Artist; Volume II
Casa editrice: Cooper Square Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket