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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream
Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously...
Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously...
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A twenty-something, fast-talking salesman's latest deal collapses the day he learns his father has suddenly died. Against his wishes, Sam is called home to put his father's estate in order and reconnect with his estranged family. While there, he uncovers a startling secret that turns his entire world upside down, he has a 30-year-old sister he never knew existed.
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""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a...
8) Small time
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Al Klein and his longtime friend, Ash Martini own a used car lot. These two know every trick in the book when it comes to selling cars. Klein still pines for his ex-wife Barbara, who left him years ago. After their son Freddy graduates high school, he decides to forego college in favor of selling cars with his old man. As Freddy quickly transforms from innocent young man into a jaded car salesman, Al is left with a tough decision to make.
9) Slasher
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A frenetic and fascinating look at the bizarre life of used car salesman Michael Bennett, better known as 'The Slasher.' Share in one particularly crazed weekend as Bennett is called to help a struggling dealership, desperate to dump their inventory.
10) Flywheel
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A dishonest used car salesman turns his life around, after he is caught deceiving customers and must return their money.
Author
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Library of America volume 169
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2007
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"Passionate, insightful, often funny, and exhibiting a linguistic richness few writers have equaled, the novels of Saul Bellow are among the defining achievements of postwar American literature. Novels 1956 1964 opens with Seize the Day, a tightly wrought novella that, unfolding over the course of a single devastating day, explores the desperate predicament of the failed actor and salesman Tommy Wilhelm. The austere psychological portraiture of Seize...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Description
In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman. His wife worked double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream. The odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father...
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