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Eugene O'Neill
Robert M. Dowling
其他書名
A Life in Four Acts
出版Yale University Press, 2014-10-28
主題Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism / Drama
ISBN03002105909780300210590
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=A_CuBAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋An “absorbing” biography of the playwright and Nobel laureate that “unflinchingly explores the darkness that dominated O’Neill’s life” (Publishers Weekly).
 
This extraordinary biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene O’Neill’s tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama, innovatively highlighting how the stories he told for the stage interweave with his actual life stories as well as the culture and history of his time.
 
Much is new in this extensively researched book: connections between O’Neill’s plays and his political and philosophical worldview; insights into his Irish American upbringing and lifelong torment over losing faith in God; his vital role in African American cultural history; unpublished photographs, including a unique offstage picture of him with his lover Louise Bryant; new evidence of O’Neill’s desire to become a novelist and what this reveals about his unique dramatic voice; and a startling revelation about the release of Long Day’s Journey Into Night in defiance of his explicit instructions. This biography is also the first to discuss O’Neill’s lost play Exorcism (a single copy of which was only recently recovered), a dramatization of his own suicide attempt.
 
Written with both a lively informality and a scholar’s strict accuracy, Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts is a biography worthy of America’s foremost playwright.
 
“Fast-paced, highly readable . . . building to a devastating last act.” —Irish Times