Arthur Miller
A Life
Published on 17. March 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-571-21947-6 (ISBN)
Description
'A consistently enthralling work.' Spectator
'Absorption in a male ethos and unease about feminine dominion, whether amatory or domestic, give Miller's plays their special colour, force and intensity. Martin Gottfried's enthralling and well-researched book makes us appreciate this afresh ... Like its subject, Arthur Miller: A Life is an uncomfortable, challenging work, forbidding us any bien-pensant ease, and we should be grateful for it.' Times Literary Supplement
'A fascinating book ... Gottfried provides a vivid panorama of the city's left-wing writing milieu into which the young Miller graduated in the 1930s.' Observer
'Remarkable and revelatory... a definitive biography.' Literary Review
'Absorption in a male ethos and unease about feminine dominion, whether amatory or domestic, give Miller's plays their special colour, force and intensity. Martin Gottfried's enthralling and well-researched book makes us appreciate this afresh ... Like its subject, Arthur Miller: A Life is an uncomfortable, challenging work, forbidding us any bien-pensant ease, and we should be grateful for it.' Times Literary Supplement
'A fascinating book ... Gottfried provides a vivid panorama of the city's left-wing writing milieu into which the young Miller graduated in the 1930s.' Observer
'Remarkable and revelatory... a definitive biography.' Literary Review
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
678 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-21947-6 (9780571219476)
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Martin Gottfried, a New York drama critic for forty years and the author of five biographies and two books of theatre criticism, is uniquely qualified to write about Arthur Miller's life and work.Winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and recipient of two Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, Martin Gottfried has been chief dramatic critic for the New York Post and Saturday Review. He is the author of A Theater Divided, Jed Harris: The Curse of Genius, All His Jazz: The Life and Death of Bob Fosse, Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury and Nobody's Fool: The Lives of Danny Kaye. He lives in New York City.