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Conversations with Miller

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New York Times drama critic Mel Gussow first met Arthur Miller in 1963 during rehearsals of

After the Fall, the play inspired by Miller's marriage to Marilyn Monroe. They then met regularly over the following forty years.Conversations with Miller records what was discussed at more than a dozen of these meetings. In the book, the author of

Death of a Salesman,

A View from the Bridge and

The Crucible is astonishingly candid about everything from the personal to the political: his successes and disappointments in theatre, his role as an advocate of human rights, his staunch resistance to the United States Congressional witch hunts of the 1950s. He also speaks forthrightly about his relationship with Monroe.Personal, wise and often very funny, the result is a revealing self-portrait of one of the giants of twentieth-century literature, who was both a 'regular guy' and a fiercely original writer and thinker.Published to mark the centenary of Arthur Miller's birth, this new edition of

Conversations of Miller features a new Foreword by Richard Eyre, former Artistic Director of the National Theatre, and an Afterword by publisher Nick Hern, in which both reflect on their own conversations with America's greatest playwright.

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07 November 2024
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250 p.
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