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  • Published: 29 May 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141189987
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $29.99
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The Price




New to Penguin Modern Classics for this timeless drama

Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets, desks, a damaged harp, an overstuffed armchair - the relics of a lost life of affluence he's finally come to sell. But when his brother Walter, who he hasn't spoken to in years, arrives, the talk stops being just about whether Victor's been offered a fair price for the furniture, and turns to the price that one and not the other of them paid when their father lost both his fortune and the will to go on ...

  • Published: 29 May 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141189987
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Arthur Miller

American dramatist Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915. In 1938 Miller won awards for his comedy The Grass Still Grows. His major achievement was Death of a Salesman, which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the 1949 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. The Crucible was aimed at the widespread congressional investigation of subversive activities in the US; the drama won the 1953 Tony Award. Miller's autobiography, Timebends: A Life was published in 1987.

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