SITUATION NORMAL - SIGNED

by Arthur Miller

$3,750 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944. First Edition. Attractive copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's first book, based on his experiences researching the war correspondence of journalist Ernie Pyle. The title derives from the widely-used military acronym slang SNAFU Situation Normal: All Fucked Up , which translates to a bad situation that is a normal state of affairs. Miller was tasked by Hollywood to gather

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