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008			160308s2016 nyuacf b 001 0beng
010			_a2016008421
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050	0	0	_aPS3529.N5 _bZ6527 2016
082	0	0	_a812/.52 _aB _223
100	1		_aGelb, Arthur, _d1924-2014.
245	1	0	_aBy women possessed : _ba life of Eugene O'Neill / _cArthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb.
264		1	_aNew York : _bG.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House, _c[2016]
300			_axxv, 869 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, portraits ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"A Marian Wood book."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [767]-847) and index.
505	0		_aUpheaval -- About Agnes -- Mistress, secretary, wife, and mother -- "Time's winged chariot" -- Unraveling
520	2		_a"Celebrated for their books on Eugene O'Neill and enjoying access to a trove of previously sealed archival material, the Gelbs deliver their final volume on the stormy life and brilliant oeuvre of this Nobel Prize-winning American playwright. This is a tour through both a magical moment in American theater and the troubled life of a genius. Not a peep show or a celebrity gossip fest, this book is a brilliant investigation of the emotional knots that ensnared one of our most important playwrights. Handsome, charming when he wanted to be, O'Neill was the flame women were drawn to--all, that is, except his mother, who never let him forget he was unwanted. By Women Possessed follows O'Neill through his great successes, the failures he was able to shrug off, and the long eclipse, a twelve-year period in which, despite the Nobel, nothing he wrote was produced. But ahead lay his greatest achievements: The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night. Both were ahead of their time and both received lukewarm receptions. It wasn't until after his death that his widow, the keeper of the flame, began a fierce and successful campaign to restore his reputation. The result is that today, just over 125 years after his birth, O'Neill is a towering presence in the theater, his work--always in performance here and abroad--still electrifying audiences. Perhaps of equal importance, he is the acknowledged father of modern American theater, the man who paved the way for the likes of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and a host of others. But, as Williams has said, at a cost: 'O'Neill gave birth to the American theater and died for it'"-- _cProvided by publisher
600	1	0	_aO'Neill, Eugene, _d1888-1953.
600	1	0	_aO'Neill, Eugene, _d1888-1953 _xRelations with women.
650		0	_aDramatists, American _y20th century _vBiography.
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft
700	1		_aGelb, Barbara.
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