O'Neill: Son and Artist - Couverture souple

Scheaffer, Louis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0815412444 ISBN 13 : 9780815412441

Editeur : Cooper Square Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cooper Square Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0815412444
• ISBN 13: 9780815412441
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 768
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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