Timebends : a life

Miller, Arthur (1915-2005)

ISBN 10: 1408836319 / ISBN 13: 9781408836316

Published by London : Bloomsbury, 2012

About this Item

Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xxiv, 628 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates, 19 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Miller, Arthur 1915-2005; Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs; Dramatists, American 20th century ; Biography; Memoirs; Authors, American 20th century. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 416123

Bibliographic Details

Title: Timebends : a life

Publisher: London : Bloomsbury

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: New paperback edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Arthur Miller's plays have held the world's stages for almost half a century. Among them are Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and All My Sons, which have been read and performed countless times across the world. His memoir, Timebends, shows that the life of the man is as compelling as his plays. With passion, wit and candour, Miller recalls his childhood in Harlem and Brooklyn in the 1920s and the Depression; his successes and failures in the theatre and in Hollywood; the formation of his political beliefs that, two decades later, brought him into confrontations with the House Committee of 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 the twentieth century: its energy, its humour, its chaos and moral struggles.

Review:

The personality revealed by this fine autobiography is wholly admirable (Anthony Burgess)

A book and a half. Arthur Miller is that very rare bird; a truly independent man. His autobiography is a beautifully structured narrative: tough, very moving, a political testimony of considerable force (Harold Pinter)

The personality revealed by this fine autobiography is wholly admirable. Miller did more than fracture the American dream and interpret the American nightmare: he dared to enter the fire that surrounded the most potent sexual myth of the century (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)

Arthur Miller's achievement in this book is to fuse the rhetorical power of his drama with the steely integrity of his life. The result is something pretty close to a masterpiece (Sean French)