# After the Fall

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- Book: [After the Fall](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-dusty-miller/after-the-fall) ([After the Fall.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-dusty-miller/after-the-fall.md))
- Authors: [Arthur Miller](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-dusty-miller)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-999-4
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2009-03-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Quentin is a successful lawyer in New York, but inside his head he is struggling with his own sense of guilt and the shadows of his past relationships. One of these an ill-fated marriage to the charming and beautiful Maggie, who went from operating a switchboard to become a self-destructive star - a singer everyone wanted a piece of. After the Fall is often seen as the most explicitly autobiographical of Arthur Miller's plays, and Maggie as an unflinching portrait of Miller's ex-wife Marilyn Monroe, only two years after her suicide. But in its psychological acuity and depth, and its brilliant, dreamlike structure, it is a literary, and not just biographical, masterpiece.