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A critical biography of Eugene O'Neill, deeply informed by the insights of psychoanalysis. It covers his troubled childhood and adolescence, his mourning for his family, and his ultimate emergence from the preoccupation with grief and loss that pervaded his life and writings... Read Full Overview

Within little more than three years of the opening of his first successful play on Broadway, Eugene O'Neill endured the deaths of his father, mother, and brother. These devastating losses plunged the young playwright into a period of guilt and profound mourning that consumed... Read Full Overview