![]() ![]() ” -Andrew O’Hagan, London Review of Books ![]() There can’t be many writers who appeared to live so much at the center of their times and who suffered so much from that seeming centrality… One of the coups of Bigsby’s terrific biography is that it finally allows Miller to name the names he refused to name in 1956. There are mysteries to bear and ironies to become invested in-all good biographies must have their share-and yet the Miller who emerges from this book is ambiguous enough to become a beacon of the Cold War period… Bigsby’s biography is so effective because it manages to locate Miller’s art in terms both of the progression of his idealism and the regressions of his actual experience. “Christopher Bigsby has a perfect ear for the manners and motions of Miller’s art, and he tells a gripping story of Miller’s hunt for truth. ” -Jeremy McCarter, New York Times Book Review “Thanks to Bigsby’s research, particularly into previously unseen material, his account of Miller trying to hang on to his soul in midcentury America shows that he was large not least in his contradictions… What the book makes newly clear, though, is how much of Miller’s work reflects his own personal struggles. “ meteor-size new biography… Bigsby’s book is crammed with piquant details. ![]()
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