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Book Description: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 2007. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IB-9780226148809

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Book Description: The University of Chicago Press, United States, 2007. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 236 x 158 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during his lifetime, his works resonated with audiences, won him the Nobel Prize and four Pulitzers, and continue to grip theatergoers today. Now noted historian John Patrick Diggins offers a masterly biography that both traces O'Neill's tumultuous life and explains the forceful ideas that form the heart of his unflinching works. Diggins paints a richly detailed portrait of the playwright's life, from his Irish roots and his early years at sea to his relationships with his troubled mother and brother. Here, we see O'Neill as a young Greenwich Village radical, a ravenous autodidact who attempted to understand the disjunction between the sunny public face of American life and the rage that he knew was simmering beneath. According to Diggins, O'Neill mined this disjunction like no other American writer.His characters burn with longing for an idealized future composed of equal parts material success and individual freedom, but repeatedly they fall back to earth, pulled by the tendrils of family and the insatiability of desire. Drawing on thinkers from Emerson to Nietzsche, O'Neill viewed this endlessly frustrated desire as the problematic core of American democracy, simultaneously driving and undermining American ideals of progress, success, and individual freedom. Melding a penetrating assessment of O'Neill's works and thought with a sensitive recreation of his life, Eugene O'Neill's America offers a striking new view of America's greatest playwright - and a new picture of American democracy itself. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780226148809

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Book Description: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2007. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Volume itself hs two tone black cloth covers with white lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality cover. Clean, fresh, tight and bright. A very nice copy. Bookseller Inventory # 002357

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Book Description: University Of Chicago Press. Book Condition: New. Hardcover w / dustjacket. NEW NEW NEW; never read; never sold. Nothing more to say. 2007. Hardcover w / dustjacket. Bookseller Inventory # 400344

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Book Description: Univ of Chicago. Book Condition: BRAND NEW. BRAND NEW Hardcover Publisher List Price= $29 A Brand New Quality Book from a Full-Time Bookshop in business since 1992!. Bookseller Inventory # 228989

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Book Description: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 2007. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IB-9780226148809

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Book Description: The University of Chicago Press. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy, John Patrick Diggins, In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during his lifetime, his works resonated with audiences, won him the Nobel Prize and four Pulitzers, and continue to grip theatergoers today. Now noted historian John Patrick Diggins offers a masterly biography that both traces O'Neill's tumultuous life and explains the forceful ideas that form the heart of his unflinching works. Diggins paints a richly detailed portrait of the playwright's life, from his Irish roots and his early years at sea to his relationships with his troubled mother and brother. Here, we see O'Neill as a young Greenwich Village radical, a ravenous autodidact who attempted to understand the disjunction between the sunny public face of American life and the rage that he knew was simmering beneath. According to Diggins, O'Neill mined this disjunction like no other American writer. His characters burn with longing for an idealized future composed of equal parts material success and individual freedom, but repeatedly they fall back to earth, pulled by the tendrils of family and the insatiability of desire. Drawing on thinkers from Emerson to Nietzsche, O'Neill viewed this endlessly frustrated desire as the problematic core of American democracy, simultaneously driving and undermining American ideals of progress, success, and individual freedom. Melding a penetrating assessment of O'Neill's works and thought with a sensitive recreation of his life, Eugene O'Neill's America offers a striking new view of America's greatest playwright - and a new picture of American democracy itself. Bookseller Inventory # B9780226148809

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Book Description: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2007. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 305 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # x-0226148807

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Book Description: 2007. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 162mm x 25mm x 239mm. 305 pages. 0.572. Bookseller Inventory # 9780226148809

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