A View From The Bridge (Penguin Plays): a play in two acts with a new introd.

The Story

America's greatest playwright weaves 'a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale.' -Frank Rich, The New York TimesIn A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller explores the intersection between one man's self-delusion and the brutal trajectory of fate. Eddie Carbone is a Brooklyn longshoreman, a hard-working man whose life has been soothingly predictable. He hasn't counted on the arrival of two of his wife's relatives, illegal immigrants from Italy; nor has he recognized his true feelings for his beautiful niece, Catherine. And in due course, what Eddie doesn't know-about her, about life, about his own heart-will have devastating consequences.'The play has moments of intense power. . . . Miller plays on the audience with the skill of a master.' -Clive Barnes, New York Post