A View from the Bridge
$30.26
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
16 December 2009
Summary
Winner of the 2016 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Direction of a Play: Ivo van Hove
Set in the 1950s on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights at home with his wife, Beatrice, and orphan niece, Catherine. But the routine of his life is interrupted when Beatrice’s cousins, undocumented immigrants from Italy, arrive in New York. As…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143105572 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143105574 |
| Author: | Arthur Miller, Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2009 |
| Weight: | 85g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 128mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Audience Age: | 17-17 |
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Critics Review
Winner of the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
”[In Arthur Miller’s plays] we find the true compassion and catharsis that are as essential to our society as water and fire and babies and air… . Miller awakened in me the taste for all that must be-the empathy and love for the least of us, out of which bursts a gratitude for the poetry of his characters and the greatness of their creator.”
-Philip Seymour Hoffman, from the Foreword
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1963), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) and The American Clock (1980). He also wrote two novels, Focus (1945), and The Misfits, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for In Russia (1969), Chinese Encounters (1979), and In the Country (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His later work included a memoir, Timebends (1987); the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), and Mr. Peter’s Connections (1999); Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944–2000; and On Politics and the Art of Acting (2001). He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Miller was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters in 2002, and the Jerusalem Prize in 2003.
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