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Throughout his productive and successful career as a playwright, Arthur Miller has been publishing stories as finely made and as directly expressive as his work for the theater. The best of these stories are now available for the first time in book form.
The title story (which was among the O. Henry Award-winning stories for 1961) is a bold and surprisingly impressionistic evocation of a few late summer days in a five-year-old boy's life. His growing awareness of family tensions and of his own character is set off and described by a series of small incidents, played out against a vivid seaside background. "Fitter's Night," hitherto unpublished, splendidly evokes the feverish Brooklyn Navy Yard of World War II. In "Monte Sant' Angelo" (also an O. Henry... Tovább

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I Don't Need You Any More
Throughout his productive and successful career as a playwright, Arthur Miller has been publishing stories as finely made and as directly expressive as his work for the theater. The best of these stories are now available for the first time in book form.
The title story (which was among the O. Henry Award-winning stories for 1961) is a bold and surprisingly impressionistic evocation of a few late summer days in a five-year-old boy's life. His growing awareness of family tensions and of his own character is set off and described by a series of small incidents, played out against a vivid seaside background. "Fitter's Night," hitherto unpublished, splendidly evokes the feverish Brooklyn Navy Yard of World War II. In "Monte Sant' Angelo" (also an O. Henry Award winner) an American Jew makes a poignant discovery in a tiny Italian mountain town. "Please Don't Kill Anything" and "Glimpse at a Jockey" are pointed vignettes, told as they might be by a particularly enthralling storyteller in conversation. Two long stories, "The Prophecy" and "A Search for a Future," survey intricate moral problems, the first in a lonely country setting but filled with dramatic interactions among a number of troubled men and women, the second a story of father and son in the gray city. "The Misfits" is the original version of what became a celebrated film, and "Fame" is a comic sketch of the contradictory anxieties that accompany celebrity.
Some of these tales are novelistic in their complexity; others are anecdotal. Taken together in this balanced collection, they are certain to add to Arthur Miller's stature as a man of letters.
jacket design by Guy Fleming Vissza