num_pages: 112
description: Librarian's note: This is an Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0141182741 ISBN13: 9780141182742.In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller's extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life'.
language: English
title: Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
titlecomplete: Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
characters: Linda Loman, Ben Loman, Willy Loman, Biff Loman, Happy Loman, Howard Wagner
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, American, Drama, School, Literature, Read For School, Classics, High School
ratings_count: 226760
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