The Iceman Cometh - by Eugene O'Neill (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"We live and die, in the spirit, in solitude, and the true strength of <i>Iceman </i>is its intense dramatic exemplification of that somber reality. . . . Life, in <i>Iceman, </i> is what it is in Schopenhauer: illusion."--from the foreword by Harold Bloom</b> <p/><i>The Iceman Cometh</i> focuses on a group of alcoholics and misfits who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams. Eugene O'Neill--the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in literature--completed <i>Iceman </i>in 1939, but he delayed production until after the war, when it enjoyed a long run of performances in 1946 after receiving mixed reviews. Three years after O'Neill's death, Jason Robards starred in a Broadway revival that brought new critical attention to O'Neill's darkest and most nihilistic play. Since then, <i>The Iceman Cometh</i> has gained enormously in stature; many critics now recognize it as one of the greatest plays in American drama. <p/><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Selected as a 2007 AAUP University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries <p/> <p/><p>"We live and die, in the spirit, in solitude, and the true strength of <i>Iceman </i>is its intense dramatic exemplification of that somber reality . . . life, in <i>Iceman, </i> is what it is in Schopenhauer: illusion."--from the foreword by Harold Bloom</p> <p/><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Eugene O'Neill</b> (1888-1953), the father of American drama, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama four times and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. <b>Harold Bloom</b>, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, is the author of many books, including <i>The Western Canon</i>, <i>Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human</i>, and <i>Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine.</i><i></i> <p/>
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