Death of a salesman : certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem / by Arthur Miller.

By: Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005Material type: TextTextDescription: 139 pages ; 21 cmISBN: 0881030171; 9780881030174Subject(s): Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005. Death of a salesman | Sales personnel -- Drama | Fathers and sons -- DramaGenre/Form: Drama.DDC classification: 812 LOC classification: PS3525.I5156 | D4 1977Summary: [This book] has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and shoeshine, [the author] redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity - and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room.
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[This book] has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and shoeshine, [the author] redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity - and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room.

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