{"product_id":"the-iceman-cometh","title":"The Iceman Cometh","description":"\u003cb\u003eEugene O'Neill's darkest and most nihilistic play, with a foreword by Harold Bloom \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\"--Harold Bloom, from the Introduction \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.","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48003721101501,"sku":"BS-TC0-117431","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780300117431-HD.jpg?v=1786894707","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/the-iceman-cometh","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}