Ah, Wilderness! - Couverture souple

O'Neill, Eugene

 
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Synopsis

Revived in 1998 to acclaim at New York's Lincoln Center Ah Wilderness! is a sharp departure from the gritty reality of the author's renowned dramas. Taking place over the July 4th weekend of 1906 in an idyllic Connecticut town it offers a tender retrospective portrait of small town family values teenage growing pains and young love.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

An affectionate and witty comedy of recollection from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. Richard Miller is deeply enamoured with his 'best girl', the pretty and pure Muriel. But when her cantankerous father finds out about their plans to spend Independence Day together, he demands that she write to him breaking off the whole thing. Richard is distraught, heartbroken, and seems about ready to knuckle under to strong liquor and fast women... Can his father Nat reach across the generation gap and bring his son back to the family and Muriel? This edition includes a full introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.

Biographie de l'auteur

Eugene O'Neill was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and at the time of his death in 1951 had written over twenty plays.

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