Death of a Salesman by Miller, Arthur H.
	List Price:   $15.00 Unit Price:   $12.00 You Save:   $3.00 (20%) ISBN-10:   0140481346 ISBN-13:   9780140481341 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Series:   Penguin Plays Ser. Category:   Classics Pub. Date:   October 1976 Pages:   144 Format:   B-Trade Pbk
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Awards
1949  Pulitzer Prize (USA)  Winner!
Subjects
AMERICAN DRAMA (DRAMATIC WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR) LOMAN, WILLY (FICTITIOUS CHARACTER)_DRAMA
Description/Notes
Willy Loman, the protagonist of "Death of a Salesman," has spent his life following the American way, living out his belief in salesmanship as a way to reinvent himself. But somehow the riches and respect he covets have eluded him. At age 63, he searches for the moment his life took a wrong turn, the moment of betrayal that undermined his relationship with his wife and destroyed his relationship with Biff, the son in whom he invested his faith. Willy lives in a fragile world of elaborate excuses and daydreams, conflating past and present in a desperate attempt to make sense of himself and of a world that once promised so much. The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman's deferred American dream Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity--and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an American living room.