Timebends
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The view from the floor is of a pair of pointy black calf-height shoes, one of them twitching restlessly, and just above them the plum-colored skirt rising from the ankles to the blouse, and higher still the young round face and her ever-changing tones of voice as she gossips into the wall telephone with one of her two sisters, something she would go on doing the rest of her life until one by one they peeled off the wire and vanished into the sky.
The view from the floor is of a pair of pointy black calf-height shoes, one of them twitching restlessly, and just above them the plum-colored skirt rising from the ankles to the blouse, and higher still the young round face and her ever-changing tones of voice as she gossips into the wall telephone with one of her two sisters, something she would go on doing the rest of her life until one by one …
About this book
Autobiographie de ce dramaturge Juif libéral new-yorkais, combattant pour la liberté (il est président du PEN international) et ex-mari de Marilyn Monroe. Pour Anthony Burgess ce livre propose "une allégorie des épreuves et des triomphes limités de l'intellectualité américaine."
Themes & subjects
BiographyAmerican DramatistsAmerican AuthorsMiller, Arthur, 1915BiographiesDramaturges américains
First published 1987Characters & people
Setting
20th century20e siècle
About the author
Arthur Miller
1915 – 2005
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). He wrote several screenplays and was most noted for his work on The Misfits (1961). The drama Death of a Salesman is considered one of the best American plays of the 20th century.
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