{"product_id":"the-iceman-cometh-paperback-1","title":"The Iceman Cometh - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEugene O'Neill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHarold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"We live and die, in the spirit, in solitude, and the true strength of \u003ci\u003eIceman \u003c\/i\u003eis its intense dramatic exemplification of that somber reality. . . . Life, in \u003ci\u003eIceman, \u003c\/i\u003e is what it is in Schopenhauer: illusion.\"--from the foreword by Harold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Iceman Cometh\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eIceman \u003c\/i\u003ein 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Iceman Cometh\u003c\/i\u003e has gained enormously in stature; many critics now recognize it as one of the greatest plays in American drama. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugene O'Neill\u003c\/b\u003e (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. \u003cb\u003eHarold Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Western Canon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare: The Invention of the Human\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 7.84 x 5.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42685047930943,"sku":"9780300117431","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/837fd0b563fbc0d4eb127d88b31345cb.webp?v=1764969689","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-iceman-cometh-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}