O'Neill: Son and Artist, Volume 2 (First Edition)
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- Synopsis
- The second volume in the biography of the playwright Eugene O'Neill, O'Neill, Son and Artist brings Louis Sheaffer's monumental biography of America's foremost playwright to a poignant, dramatic conclusion. Together with the previous volume, O'Neill, Son and Playwright, Sheaffer's biography now stands complete as the most authoritative study ever written about the life of Eugene O'Neill. Based on many sources hitherto unknown or inaccessible, in addition to all the established standard sources, this volume catches the turmoil of O'Neill's private life and illuminates how it shaped and haunted his artistic achievements. Sheaffer introduces fresh material uncovered during seven years of research that recounts O'Neill's personal life in intimate, harrowing detail: the deaths of his family, one by one in rapid succession; the bouts with liquor that nearly killed him; his manic temperament and insatiable restlessness; his acute discomfort in the role of father and the disastrous affect it had on his children; his Strindbergian marriage to Carlotta Monterey, characterized by total dependence and often enough deep hatred on both sides; his later illness, which left him unable to write or dictate, but with a mind at the height of its artistic and intellectual powers. From O'Neill's first Broadway success in 1920, Beyond the Horizon, Sheaffer examines the effect of these crises on his career, most notably on the creation of The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night. And he refocuses on O'Neill's past, particularly his relations with his family--"the fountainhead of his passion and power"--as this most private dramatist reveals himself more and more nakedly in his plays, finally baring all in his tragic masterpiece of the "four haunted Tyrones," Long Day's Journey Into Night. Vigorously written, scrupulously researched, compassionate in its treatment of the tormented man who "transmuted private history and secret anguish into art," O'Neill, Son and Artist takes its place beside its prizewinning companion volume as a landmark American biography.
- Copyright:
- 1973
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 750 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780316783361
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown & Company
- Date of Addition:
- 11/02/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Louis Sheaffer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Drama, Plays and Theater
- Submitted By:
- Evan Reese
- Proofread By:
- Beverly Cory
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.