sbn: 0140481346
binding: paperback
condition: used. Edges of the cover are worn and there is a little rip near the bottom of the book bind
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
pages: 144
title: Death of a Salesman
author: Arthur Miller
description
Arthur Miller's 1949 Death of a Salesman has sold 11 million copies, and Willy Loman didn't make all those sales on a smile and a shoeshine. This play is the genuine article--it's got the goods on the human condition, all packed into a day in the life of one self-deluded, self-promoting, self-defeating soul. It's a sturdy bridge between kitchen-sink realism and spectral abstraction, the facts of particular hard times and universal themes.
The tragedy of Loman the all-American dreamer and loser works eternally, on the page as on the stage. A lot of plays made history around 1949, but none have stepped out of history into the classic canon as Salesman has. Great as it was, Tennessee Williams's work can't be revived as vividly as this play still is, all over the world.
No doubt you've seen Willy Loman's story at least once. It's still worth reading.
