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Eugene O´neill - Moon for the Misbegotten - 9781854591395 - KKD0001525
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Moon for the Misbegotten

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Description for Moon for the Misbegotten Paperback. An autobiographical play based on the broken life of O'Neill's alcoholic brother James. Josie, a towering woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation lives with her conniving father. Together, they're a formidable force, but Josie's softer side is exposed through her love of Jim Tyrone, her father's drinking buddy - a third-rate actor. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 136. An autobiographical play based on the broken life of O'Neill's alcoholic brother James. Josie, a towering woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation lives with her conniving father. Together, they're a formidable force, but Josie's softer side is exposed through her love of Jim Tyrone, her father's drinking buddy - a third-rate actor. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 136. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear

The last work from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, continuing the semi-autobiographical cycle centring on the Tyrone family started by Long Day's Journey into Night.

James 'Jamie' Tyrone Jnr is a hard-drinking Broadway playboy, trying to blot out his painful memories of the past by indulging his craven self-destructive streak. One day he finds that he has wandered to the home of his salty tenant-farmer Phil Hogan; and Hogan's lusty, jaded daughter Josie.

Under the Connecticut moon, Jamie and Josie find something in each other they never knew existed – though it is only when ... Read more

Eugene O'Neill's play A Moon for the Misbegotten had its world premiere at the Hartman Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, in 1947. It premiered on Broadway in 1957.

This edition of the play includes a full introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
121
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854591395
SKU
KKD0001525
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Eugene O´neill
Eugene O'Neill was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and at the time of his death in 1951 had written over twenty plays.

Reviews for Moon for the Misbegotten
'Eugene O'Neill is arguably the greatest of American playwrights... this play is a work of shattering genius'
Independent
'A scorching play about the eternal American theme of reality and illusion... that rarest of theatrical treats: an evening of raw, powerful emotion'
Guardian
'Tremendous, often shatteringly powerful... wrenches the heart like few other 20th-century dramas'
Daily ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Moon for the Misbegotten


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