This is the saga of the battle fought both in the public arena and in the home between James O'Neill, a matinee idol, and his son Eugene O'Neill, who became the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize. It is the story of how Eugene O'Neill, almost single-handedly, struggled to overturn the melodramatic conventions of the Victorian stage, and brought about the American theatre's coming of age in the 20th century.
- ISBN10 0399146091
- ISBN13 9780399146091
- Publish Date 8 May 2000 (first published 1 September 1987)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 30 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
- Imprint Applause Theatre Book Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 816
- Language English