Everybody Wins (Miller, Arthur) [Paperback]

Arthur Miller (Author)

Book Description

Series: Miller, Arthur | Publication Date: January 21, 1994

"Everybody Wins," with a provocative preface on the role of language in screenwriting is a richly atmospheric, masterfully plotted suspense story, but of course, in the hands of Arthur Miller, it is much more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 109 pages
• Publisher: Grove Press; 1st edition (January 21, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802132006
• ISBN-13: 978-0802132000
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,280,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #46 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Entertainment > Movies > Screenplays

More About the Author

Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan. He was awarded the Avery Hopwood Award for Playwrighting at University of Michigan in 1936. He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, received two Emmy awards and three Tony Awards for his plays, as well as a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He also won an Obie award, a BBC Best Play Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, a Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Literary Lion Award from the New York Public Library, the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Algur Meadows Award. He received honorary degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University and was awarded the Prix Moliere of the French theatre, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Lifetime Achievement Award and the Pulitzer Prize, as well as numerous other awards. He was named the Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2001. He was awarded the 2002 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters and the 2003 Jerusalem Prize.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Everybody Wins ... and Loses, May 3, 2007

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This review is from: Everybody Wins (Miller, Arthur) (Paperback)

Reading a screenplay is somewhat different from a play. Readers must keep this in mind as they read this Arthur Miller work. The structure of the screenplay slows the pace of the story to some degree, which is one of the main reason that I could not give "Everybody Wins" five stars. It just seemed to move too slow.

A man is framed for murder but has a female acquaintance named Angela Crispini that mysteriously wants to prove his innocence. Why is she so convinced that he is innocent? When a famous private investigator named Tom O'Toole takes an interest in the the mysterious Angela, he sees layers of her story revealed only to have Angela reveal the biggest surprise to Tom's acquaintance Judge Murdoch. In the end, everybody wins in the form of a small victory. The small victory is that the innocent Felix Daniels is set free from prison. The biggest criminals are never brought to justice.

I really do not have a desire to see the movie version of this story because I fear the portrayal of the characters would soil my enjoyment of the story. Even if this story lacks a certain amount of Miller's charm, it is still quality work in written form.