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100	1		_aDowling, Robert M., _d1970-
245	1	0	_aEugene O'Neill : _ba life in four acts / _cRobert M. Dowling.
264		1	_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _c[2014]
300			_axi, 569 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"is extraordinary new biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene O'Neill's tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama. Robert M. Dowling innovatively recounts O'Neill's life in four acts, thus highlighting how the stories he told for the stage interweave with his actual life stories. Each episode also uncovers how O'Neill's work was utterly intertwined with, and galvanized by, 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Irish upbringing and lifelong torment over losing faith in God; his vital role in African American cultural history; unpublished photographs, including a unique offstage picture of him with his lover Louise Bryant; new evidence of O'Neill's desire to become a novelist and what this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 lively informality yet a scholar's strict accuracy, Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts is a biography that America's foremost playwright richly deserves"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600	1	0	_aO'Neill, Eugene, _d1888-1953.
650		0	_aDramatists, American _y20th century _vBiography.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. _2bisacsh
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