num_pages: 224
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: The Iceman Cometh
titlecomplete: The Iceman Cometh
characters: Cora, Margie, Harry Hope, Pat McGloin, Joe Mott, Moran, Larry Slade, Lieb, Rocky Pioggi, Hugo Kalmar, Piet Wetjoen (The General), Chuck Morello, Don Parritt, Theodore Hickman (Hickey), Cecil Lewis (The Captain), Willie Oban, Ed Mosher, Pearl, James Cameron (Jimmy Tomorrow)
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, American, The United States Of America, Drama, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, 20th Century
ratings_count: 9815
places: Greenwich Village, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: -725817600000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Jonathan Cape