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Timebends |
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| Book: Paperback | 5.00 x 7.79in | 656 pages | ISBN 9780140249170 | 01 Oct 1995 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP |
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The revealing and deeply moving autobiography of a great American playwright—and a chronicle of our time
Arthur Miller's plays have held the world's stages for almost half a century. Among them are Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, and others, including the recent Broken Glass, which won England's 1995 Olivier Award for Best Play. His memoir, Timebends, shows that the life of the man is as compelling as his plays. With passion, wit, and candor, Miller recalls hischildhood in Harlem and Brooklyn in the 1920s and the Depression; his successes and failures in the theater and in Hollywood; the formation of his political beliefs that, two decades later, brought him into confrontations with the House Committee on Un-American Activities; and his later work on behalf of human rights as the president of PEN International. He writes with astonishing perception and tenderness of Marilyn Monroe, his second wife, as well as the host of famous and infamous that have intersected with his adventurous life. Timebends is Miller's love letter to this century: its energy, its humor, its chaos and moral struggles.
"Tough, very moving . . . A book and a half. Arthur Miller is that very rare bird, a truly independent man."
—Harold Pinter
"The personality revealed by this fine autobiography is wholly admirable."
—Anthony Burgess
"As wise and witty and funny and brave as any of his plays . . . Surely one of the great stories of our time."
—Louis Auchincloss
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