The Iceman Cometh: A Play
- ISBN-10
- 039470018X
- ISBN-13
- 9780394700182
- Series
- The Iceman Cometh
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1957
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Author
- Eugene O'Neill
Description
The Place: Harry Hope's bar, a cheap gin-mill of the five-cent whiskey, last-resort variety situated downtown on the West Side of New York.
The Time: Salesman Hickey's birthday celebration, two days during the summer of 1912 -- a time when all tomorrows are forced abruptly to become today; when the delineation between hopes, dreams, and pipe dreams disintegrates; when "self-knowledge" destroys self-respect, compassion -- and life.
One of the last of Eugene O'Neill's plays, The Iceman Cometh stands today with Long Day's Journey into Night and A Moon for the Misbegotten as the supreme expression of his dramatic genius.
