Homely Girl, A Life: And Other Stories-Fast Shipping

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In his long career, Arthur Miller has charted some of the most hidden aspects of the American character, and made us recognize
Homely Girl, A Life, he turns his attention to a smaller, more intimate, canvas, but one that in its deceptive delicacy still encompasses a vast range of human fears, ambitions, and —the eponymous homely girl—has hated her face ever since she was a child and her mother held up Ivory Snow advertisements to her, saying, “Now that is beauty.”Homely she is, but also fiercely ,it is not until she falls in love with a blind musician that she feels her full nature unfold in this exquisite portrait of a woman finding a language to describe herself.

Flanked by two stories also set in Manhattan, “Fame” and “Fitter’s Night,”
Homely Girl, A Life pays homage to a city constantly reinventing itself—and to the classic Miller themes of work, honor, and identity.

“Chekhovian . . . deserves praising to the top of the highest skyscraper for its humanity, wit, depth” —A.N. Wilson