About this title: Josie, a towering woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation lives in a dilapidated Connecticut farmhouse with her conniving father. Together, they're a formidable force as they scrape together a livelihood. But Josie's softer side is exposed through her love of Jim Tyrone, her father's drinking buddy - a third-rate actor whose dreams of ...
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, N. Y.
Date Published: 1952
Description: Reading Copy. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. X-Library with normal flaws....The hard cover has shelf wear with tape to the spine......Light yellowing pages..........We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by.... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2000-09-19
ISBN-13:9780375725852ISBN:0375725857
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Vintage, New York
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780394712369ISBN:0394712366
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. xii, 115 pp. There is a 1/4" hole punched in the front cover. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. read more
Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1952
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Spine is becoming detached and is held in place with tape; ex library with usual markings; some underlining and notations to text; book is well used but still usable! 177 pages; no dust jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1952
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Light shelf and edge wear to boards. One corner on back board chipped. Solid copy with clean pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2006-08-28
ISBN-13:9780300118155ISBN:0300118155
Description: Good. Clean unmarked pages. Clean unmarked cover. Has some shelf wear. 100% satisfaction guaranteed. SAVE Money on S and Handling, buy more than one book from us as a time! Items are from a smoke free and air conditioned environment. read more
"I read "Moon for the Misbegotten" for an online literature course. It's a short play, written by Eugene O'Neill in the 1940s about a large, in-control, basically good-willed and good-humored woman named Josie who works beside her father on their farm, though she's actually much stronger than he is. Her younger brothers have all run off (with her help) because they can't stand working under their ill-tempered and often drunk father. Josie, who proudly (and to my amusement) proclaims herself a slut throughout the novel, is actually in love with Jim Tyrone, an older man, very rich, who lives nearby and also owns the land the Hogans farm on. However, even though Jim returns her affections in his heart, they have a complicated relationship in which both deny being attracted to the other and Jim tries to steer Josie away because he knows he'd be no good for her. He's a drunk, for one thing, and he also has some issues in his past that leave him a bit of an emotional wreck. During a drunken fight with Josie's father, Jim says he's going to sell their land, which propels the Hogans to form a plan that will let them keep their land and get Jim to marry Josie.
"A Moon for the Misbegotten" wasn't bad and it wasn't good. Just alright. Sometimes the dialogue was too blunt for my taste and repetitive too. But Josie and Jim are unique characters with a story to tell and it's interesting to consider that this play was written in the 1940s, considering some of the language and content. It was quite controversial at its debut, I learned, and rightfully so if you think of the movies coming out of Hollywood at the time.
I don't think I'd ever read a play for fun, so I can't say I'd recommend this. But if you do have to read this, don't dread it. It's quick and it's not a bad story."
"Amen, Alisha. Josie definitely made this worthwhile. I felt like O'Neill was surprisingly insightful with her (don't know why I say "surprisingly," but still). I kept thinking of seeing this on stage, however, and I think I would have HATED it. The reading it was so much better than the performing it would have been, I think. Am I wrong here?"
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