Long Day's Journey into Nightby Eugene O'Neill | |
| List(s): | "Racine Library List" "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Drama" |
| Pages: | 176 |
| Year of Publication: | 1956 |
| Date Added: | 03/03/1999 |
| Date Read: | 04/03/1999 |
| Notes: | A day in the dreary life of a couple and their two sons. James Tyrone, a semi-retired actor, is vain and miserly; his wife, Mary, feels worthless and retreats into a morphine-induced haze. Jamie, their older son, is a bitter alcoholic. James refuses to acknowledge the illness of his consumptive younger son, Edmund. As Mary sinks into hallucination and madness, father and sons confront each other in searing scenes that reveal their hidden motives and interdependence. COMMENTS — If you can’t get enough of James Tyrone and his cheerful clan, O’Neill wrote a sequel, A Moon for the Misbegotten. |
| My Rating: | 2 |