num_pages: 140
description: Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0140481346 / 9780140481341Ever 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.(back cover)
language: English
title: Death of a Salesman
titlecomplete: Death of a Salesman
characters: Howard Wagner, Willy Loman, Ben Loman, Biff Loman, Happy Loman, Linda Loman
genres: Read For School, American, Theatre, School, Drama, Plays, Literature, High School, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 226711
places: New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: -662659200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama, awardedAt: -662659200000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Penguin Books