Celebrating the Arthur Miller centennial year, an eye-catching new
Penguin Plays edition of the work that established him as a leading
voice in the American theater
In 1947, Arthur Miller exploded onto Broadway with his first major work,
All My Sons, winning both the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for
Best New Play and the Tony for Best Author. The play introduced themes
that would preoccupy Miller throughout his career: the relationships
between fathers and sons and the conflict between business and personal
ethics. This striking new edition adds All My Sons to the elegant
Penguin Plays series--now in beautifully redesigned covers.
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. A love
affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Steve's daughter;
the bitterness of George Deever, who returns from the war to find his
father in prison and his father's partner free; and the reaction of
Chris Keller to his father's guilt escalate toward a climax of
electrifying intensity.
