The Man Who Had All the Luck (Penguin Classics)
you can feel Miller exploring the theatrical terrain he was to make uniquely his own Guardian  It is illuminating as a taster of themes that would return in Miller's work - father-son and brother-brother relationships, disappointment, the dubiousness of the American Dream, the hollow happiness of wealth - but here it also comes out as a piece about spiritual unease, about the deep disquiet of a man who cannot discern purpose or justice in life Financial Times  Arthur Miller was 24 when he wrote this rich, passionate and compassionate play ... it should rank with Miller's greatest. Sunday Times  Listen to the dialogue: no other American dramatist has this feel for the ordinary talk of ordinary people, or the knowledge of what they do. This is more than a writer's craft, it is a psychological and moral openness to humanity, an act not of imitating, but of sharing. Sunday Times  'It's the Arthur Miller play that slipped through the net... As well as featuring his trade-mark dialogue - compelling, funny, full of ideas - it is also a grand experiment in which the playwright reverses the usual journey of a tragic hero.' Mark Fisher, Guardian, 20.1.09--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.