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Zusatztext 'This volume of stories is an essential addition to the body of Arthur Miller's work! but it is more than that: it is an arresting self-portrait! unmediated by directors! actors! gossip columnists or biographers. The only thing wrong with it is that there isn't more of it' Informationen zum Autor Arthur Miller was one of America's greatest playwrights! whose works include Death of a Salesman ! The Crucible ! A View from the Bridge and All My Sons . He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In addition to the plays! his many other books included fiction! essays and the autobiography Time Bends . Bloomsbury will also publish his Journals in two volumes in 2011 and 2012. Klappentext 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. Published to wide critical acclaim in hardback, this collection is a glowing testament to the work of an American legend. 'If American literature has few heroes, Arthur Miller is one of them' Guardian Zusammenfassung "Presence: Collected Stories".
