Showing results for "The Salesman" in Literary Fiction

Arthur Miller’s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, has become a key text in Western literature. This unusually powerful recording, made for radio in 1953, was directed by Elia Kazan who premiered the play. It features Thomas Mitchell and Arthur Kennedy as father and son. Willy, a travelling salesman, based in New York, relentlessly chases material success.

WITH THE ECONOMY TURNED upside down, lack of work forced Billy McCoy to consider employment options he normally wouldn't. With his wife Dana, they uprooted the family and made a move north for a new business extensive opportunity requiring product marketing and direct contact with customers. The decision proved far more difficult than expected. As the months passed, with an income based solely on sales performance, Billy and Dana watched their savings account dwindle to nothing. Anxiety and fear capitalized their thoughts. Billy's success in this new career seemed dismal.

In The Bible Salesman, Preston Clearwater is scoring cash working a car-theft ring in post-World War II North Carolina. When he picks up 19-year-old Bible salesman Henry Dampier, Preston convinces the kid that he's an FBI spy. And before Henry knows what's up, he finds himself in way over his head with no apparent way out.