Death of a Salesman
Subtitle: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Edition: Reprint (48)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780140481341
Copyright date: 1949
First sentence: A melody is heard, played upon a flute.
Description: 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.
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