Book description
In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to
be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the street and
taken there is obvious enough. They are, for the most part, Jews. But
how serious an offence this is, and how they are to suffer for it, is
not clear, and they hope for the best. But as rumours pass between them
of trains full of people locked from the outside and furnaces in Poland,
and although they reassure themselves that nothing so monstrous could be
true, their panic rises. 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.
