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Presence - Collected Stories (Paperback)
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Presence - Collected Stories (Paperback)
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In his lifetime the great American playwright Arthur Miller
published two highly regarded collections of stories, "I Don't Need
You Any More" (1967) and "Homely Girl, a Life" (1995). Shortly
after his death in 2005 a final collection, "Presence" (2007),
appeared. Now, all eighteen of these stories are gathered together
in one volume for the first time, including the six from
"Presence", previously only published in the USA. In his plays
Miller took on the big themes of the day, putting stories of the
Depression, wartime deceit and the McCarthy era on stage with an
energy and passion not seen before and rarely since. In these
stories he turns his attention to smaller, more intimate themes,
yet still brings to bear the profound insight, humanism, empathy
and wit of his work for the theatre. Including the early, O. Henry
Award-winning "I Don't Need You Anymore", the original story of
"The Misfits" on which the film was based, and the beautiful late
story "Presence", this collection offers a fresh perspective on the
great writer and his work, here informed by an unusual sensuality
and delicacy. When "Homely Girl, a Life" was published in America
the critic for the "New York Times" wrote of those three stories:
'The ability to sum up in clear, unequivocal prose the essence of
emotion, a situation, a theme - characteristic of Mr Miller's best
writing - makes the reader wish that these stories were longer, and
that there were more of them.' At last there are.
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