A Penguin Classic
Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War
II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men.
Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went back
to business, making himself very wealthy in the ensuing years. In
Miller's work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son,
Chris, and Ann Deever, Steve's daughter, the bitterness of George
Keller, who returns from the war to find his father in prison and his
father's partner free, and the reaction of a son to his father's guilt
escalate toward a climax of electrifying intensity.
Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My
Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American
theater. All My Sons introduced themes that thread through Miller's
work as a whole: the relationships between fathers and sons and the
conflict between business and personal ethics. This edition features an
introduction by Christopher Bigsby.
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