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Clifford Odets, American Playwright

Margaret Brenman-Gibson · 1981

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This is the first volume of the definitive biography of Clifford Odets, encompassing the explosively creative period that bore six plays, among them Awake and Sing (1935), Waiting for Lefty (1935), and Golden Boy (1937). Called by Erik Erikson "a breakthrough in life-history writing," it dissects the three worlds -- family, theater, and the thirties -- in which the unsuccessful and tormented young actor was lost until, by writing plays, he brought them into a unity, becoming the dramatist laureate of the decade. - Jacket flap.

Book details

Year
1981
Language
English
Publisher
Atheneum
Editions
5
Pages
748
ISBN
9780689111600

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