Timebends

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The author of All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucihle, A View from the Bridge, After the Fali, Incident at Vichy, The Price, The American Clock, and other plays that successfully continue to hold the stage throughout the world has led an unusually eventful and richly dramatic life. In Timebends, Arthur Miller telis his story and telis it wonderfully, with insight, humor, passión, and candor, displaying throughout the largeness of spirit that has made him one of the most admired of living writers. Arthur Miller was born in 1915 into a newly prosperous family in a then fashionable part of Harlem; his mother was an avid reader, his father a barely literate immigrant coat manufacturer. He vividly remembers his boyhood in the twenties, before the Depression hurled the family into economic distress. After working for two years in an autó parts warehouse to earn his tuition, he went off to the University of Michigan, where, during the years of the Spanish Civil War and the rise of... Tovább

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The author of All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucihle, A View from the Bridge, After the Fali, Incident at Vichy, The Price, The American Clock, and other plays that successfully continue to hold the stage throughout the world has led an unusually eventful and richly dramatic life. In Timebends, Arthur Miller telis his story and telis it wonderfully, with insight, humor, passión, and candor, displaying throughout the largeness of spirit that has made him one of the most admired of living writers. Arthur Miller was born in 1915 into a newly prosperous family in a then fashionable part of Harlem; his mother was an avid reader, his father a barely literate immigrant coat manufacturer. He vividly remembers his boyhood in the twenties, before the Depression hurled the family into economic distress. After working for two years in an autó parts warehouse to earn his tuition, he went off to the University of Michigan, where, during the years of the Spanish Civil War and the rise of fascism, he discovered his vocation as a play wright and förmed the political outlook that, two decades later, was to bring him into courageous and ultimately victorious confrontation with the House Un-American Activities Committee. Arthur Miller s successes and failures in the theater, the sources and evolution of his plays and their productions-these are fascinatingly described, as are his relations with his family and three wives. For the first time, he writes here at length, with intimacy and touching sympathy, of his notorious marriage to Marilyn Monroe, the wondrous woman whose drive toward self-destruction, only gradually becoming apparent, nearly carried him to disaster as well. And then there are the colorful portrayals of the remarkable variety of
(continued from front flap) people, obscure and famous, who have intersected with this adventurous life. Among them are Érnie Pyle and Lucky Luciano; Harry Cohn and Spyros Skouras; Elia Kazan, Lee and Paula Strasberg, John Huston; Orsón Welles, Lee J. Cobb, Montgomery Clift, Clark Gable, and Laurence Olivier; Clifford Odets, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams; Norman Mailer, John Steinbeck, André Malraux, Saul Bellow; John E Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and Mikhail Gorbachev: When, somé twenty years ago, he lent his prestige and energy to the international presidency of PEN, Arthur Miller inaugurated the present era of eoncern for humán rights, becoming an honored citizen of the world for his efforts on behalf of the victims of repression by regimes of both the right and the left. A great writer and a great man, he has now written a splendid book-at once a chronicle of our time and a deeply personal story-that is sure to take its place among the handful of truly great autobiographies. With thirty-two pages ofphotographs A Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection Vissza