Presence
Collected Stories
(Sprache: Englisch)
All eighteen of the great American playwright Arthur Miller's stories are gathered together in one volume for the first time. Miller took on the big themes of the day, putting stories of the Depression, wartime deceit and the McCarthy era on stage with an...
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All eighteen of the great American playwright Arthur Miller's stories are gathered together in one volume for the first time. Miller took on the big themes of the day, putting stories of the Depression, wartime deceit and the McCarthy era on stage with an energy and passion not seen before and rarely since. In these stories he turns his attention to more intimate themes, yet still brings to bear the profound insight, humanism, empathy and wit of his work. This collection offers a fresh perspective on the great writer and his work, informed by an unusual sensuality and delicacy.
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In his lifetime the great American playwright Arthur Miller published two highly regarded collections of stories, I Don't Need You Any More (1967) and Homely Girl, a Life (1995). Shortly after his death in 2005 a final collection, Presence (2007), appeared. Now, all eighteen of these stories are gathered together in one volume for the first time, including the six from Presence, previously only published in the USA. In his plays Miller took on the big themes of the day, putting stories of the Depression, wartime deceit and the McCarthy era on stage with an energy and passion not seen before and rarely since. In these stories he turns his attention to smaller, more intimate themes, yet still brings to bear the profound insight, humanism, empathy and wit of his work for the theatre. Including the early, O. Henry Award-winning 'I Don't Need You Anymore', the original story of 'The Misfits' on which the film was based, and the beautiful late story ' Presence', this collection offers a fresh perspective on the great writer and his work, here informed by an unusual sensuality and delicacy. When Homely Girl, a Life was published in America the critic for the New York Times wrote of those three stories: 'The ability to sum up in clear, unequivocal prose the essence of emotion, a situation, a theme - characteristic of Mr Miller's best writing - makes the reader wish that these stories were longer, and that there were more of them.' At last there are.
Autoren-Porträt von Arthur Miller
Miller, ArthurArthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he began work with the Federal Theatre Project. His first Broadway hit was All My Sons, closely followed by Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. His other writing include Focus, a novel; The Misfits, first published as a short story, then as a cinema novel; In Russia, In the Country, Chinese Encounters (all in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath) and 'Salesman' in Beijing, non-fiction; and his autobiography, Timebends, published in 1987. Among his other plays are: Incident At Vichy, The Creation of the World and Other Business, The American Clock, The Last Yankee, Resurrection Blues and Finishing the Picture. His novella, Plain Girl, was published in 1995 and his second collection of short stories, Presence, in 2007. He died in February 2005 aged eighty-nine.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Arthur Miller
- 2009, 400 Seiten, Maße: 16,5 x 4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 140880154X
- ISBN-13: 9781408801543
Sprache:
Englisch
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Praise for Lonely Girl, a Life 'Chekhovian deserves praising to the top of the highest sky-scraper for their humanity, wit, depth' A. N. Wilson 'These stories remind us that the distinguished playwright is a good writer period' Los Angeles Times Book Review
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