Long Day's Journey into Night

O'Neill, Eugene

ISBN 10: 0300001762 / ISBN 13: 9780300001761

Edité par Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, U.S.A., 1950

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Thirty ninth printing, 1978. Pages clean.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Long Day's Journey into Night
• Éditeur: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
• Date de parution: 1950
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0300001762
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300001761
• Reliure: Trade Paperback
• État de l'article: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Plays/Theatre

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Synopsis

Book by ONeill Eugene

Présentation de l'éditeur

Soon to be seen in a major West End revival, with David Suchet as James Tyrone. An intensely autobiographical, magnificently tragic portrait of O'Neill's own family; a play so acutely personal that he insisted it was not published until after his death (although written in 1939-41, it wasn't performed in the US until 1967). Long Day's Journey into Night is a true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, and has been described as a dark side to the earlier play Ah! Wilderness.

One single day in the Tyrones' Connecticut home. James Tyrone Snr. is a miser, a talented actor who even squanders his talent in an undemanding role; eldest son Jamie is an affable, whoremongering alcoholic and confirmed ne'er-do well; youngest son Edmund is poetic, sensitive, suffering from a respiratory condition and deep-seated disillusionment; and their mother, Mary, lives in a haze of self-delusion and morphine addiction. Existing together under this roof, and the profound weight of the past, they subtly tear one another apart, shred by shred.

This edition includes a full introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.