Death of a salesman book
The book tells the story of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, and his wife and two children. In creating Willy Loman, his destructively insecure anti-hero, Miller himself defined his aim as being 'to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life. Death of a Salesman is one of those rare plays that are equally riveting whether you see it in a theater or read the script in a book.
Opening on Broadway the following year, Miller's extraordinary masterpiece changed the course of modern theatre. The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesmans deferred American dream, presented here with enlightening commentary and criticism. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. By (author) Arthur Miller, Edited by Gerald Weales. He emerged six weeks later with the final script of Death of a Salesman - a painful examination of American life and consumerism. 3.55 (204,481 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. In the spring of 1948 Arthur Miller retreated to a log cabin in Connecticut with the first two lines of a new play already fixed in his mind.