Description:
A profound new way to approach Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O'Neill to whom the play is dedicated.
Review Quotes:
"In this brilliant and innovative treatment of O'Neill's masterpiece, Professor King perceptively calls the play 'a river.' Bringing together the quotidian diary entries of Gene and Car-lotta, essential historical context, and sharp dramaturgical insight, the book tracks the tribu-taries that join at the confluence of Tao House from which the great river flowed."--Herman Daniel Farrell III, Professor, University of Kentucky, President, Eugene O'Neill Society.