About this title: A new edition of Arthur Miller's autobiography, from his boyhood in Brooklyn in the 1920s and the Depression, his college years at the University of Michigan, his politics--that caused him to run up against the House Un-American Activities Committee--his theatrical successes and failures, his family, and marriages, including his years with Marilyn Monroe.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780802100153ISBN:0802100155
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 614 p. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780802100153ISBN:0802100155
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 614 p. Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Pr
Date Published: 1989-11
ISBN-13:9780802100153ISBN:0802100155
Description: Very Good. Hardcover; Grove Pr; 1989; 1st Edition; Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ; Light reading and shelf wear, all pages clean, binding tight. Unconditional money back guarantee. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Minerva
Date Published: 1990-07-05
ISBN-13:9780749390822ISBN:0749390824
Description: Fair. Book is sound but pages are yellowing at margins. Some reading wear and underlining on a couple of pages. Inscription inside front. Ships within one business day with delivery confirmation. read more
"Middle-class jew from harlem comes up in the depression, goes to school, writes some of the best plays ever and marries Marilyn Monroe. He is genuinely perplexed by it all. Worth reading for the odd marriage of ego and contrition; he is aware that he one of the elect, in his talent and in his life, and he is troubled by it. The best of the book is in the first two or three hundo, comprising as it does a very engaging and thoughtful oral history of the 30s and 40s, here and abroad; as Miller gets more famous, and as America flies off into cloud cuckoo land, things become murkier, and lessons begin to unlearn themselves. By the end of the book you find yourself trapped in a forced, false nostalgia for the days when there was a right thing to do and if you could get on a boat to spain to fight Franco you did it; it's a nostalgia that Miller himself eschews, but I found myself drawn back to the dockyards, back to an era when you didn't have to worry about cameras eating your soul."
"Arthur Miller has a unique perspective on the twentieth century, because, well, he is Arthur Miller. He took McCarthyism by the balls. He singlehandedly congealed a major part of the consciousness about the twentieth century American anti-hero through the image of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. Oh, and he married Marilyn Monroe.
Miller's grasp on prose is not like his flawlessly balanced plays, but it has a genius of its own. Sprawling, informative, non-linear, almost like an old man telling you like it was. If you're not a fan of his, you can skip over the endless sections of detailed descriptions of the writing of his plays, his interactions with Elia Kazan and Hollywood, but you would still gain prescient historical and personal insight from a truly original soul."
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