‘Arthur Miller: American Witness,’ by John Lahr. Set in late 1940s Brooklyn, the two-act tragedy tells the story of Willy Loman, a nervous traveling salesman in despair with a mediocre life that has failed to match his ambitious expectations.

When it first opened on Broadway in 1949, “Death of a Salesman” ran for 742 performances straight and won numerous prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and the Tony for Best Play. “When we first entered the small cabin, Miller pointed to his desk, where he had sat down 50 years earlier and wrote the first act of ‘Death of a Salesman’ in eight hours,” Lahr tells The Times of Israel from his home in London. Miller was then 83 years old and brought Lahr to his writing studio in Roxbury, Connecticut. People who succeed are loved because they exude some magical formula for fending off death,” says Lahr, who was The New Yorker’s chief drama critic from 1992 to 2013. “I remember Miller told me: The whole idea of people failing is that they can no longer be loved. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.John Lahr is recalling an afternoon he spent with American playwright Arthur Miller in December 1998. Major ad/promo author tour.Ĭopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Fifteen two-color illustrations, not seen by PW. The result is a thrilling tale that will appeal not only to gamers but to all those who enjoy absorbing, fast-paced, well-constructed fantasy. The narrative avoids the excesses that plagued Wingrove's Chung Kuo series while imparting the passion that the Millers channeled into the Myst CD-ROM. The authors follow their hero, Atrus, from breech birth (and his mother's resultant death) into his uneasy relationship with Gehn, the father who abandoned him at birth and who now wants to recreate the culture of the D'ni, beings whose writings could conjure?or at least discover?worlds.

For with Wingrove's help, the Miller brothers, who created the Myst CD-ROM, have created a rollicking adventure tale full of engaging philosophical contemplations about the interplay between art and science.

In the acknowledgements to this first novel in a projected series, Wingrove is thanked by his coauthors, the Miller brothers, 'for accomplishing the impossible.' Wingrove's achievement certainly is improbable, at least judging from the sorry results of other computer-game-to-novel translations, like the paperback spinoffs of Doom.

The Book of Atrus by Rand Miller