A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

by Arthur Miller

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America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." —Frank Rich, The New York Times

Winner of the 2016 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Direction of a Play: Ivo van Hove.

In 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

  • ISBN10 0140481354
  • ISBN13 9780140481358
  • Publish Date 28 July 1977 (first published 14 November 1955)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 22 October 2004
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint Penguin USA