{"product_id":"a-view-from-the-bridge-9780143105572","title":"A View from the Bridge","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Direction of a Play: Ivo van Hove\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in the 1950s on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, \u003ci\u003eA View from the Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e 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 one of them embarks on a romance with Catherine, Eddie's envy and delusion plays out with devastating consequences. This edition includes a foreword by Philip Seymour Hoffman and an introduction by Arthur Miller. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (1915-2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include \u003ci\u003eAll My Sons\u003c\/i\u003e (1947), \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Salesman\u003c\/i\u003e (1949), \u003ci\u003eThe Crucible\u003c\/i\u003e (1953), \u003ci\u003e A View from the Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e A Memory of Two Mondays \u003c\/i\u003e(1955), \u003ci\u003eAfter the Fall\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), \u003ci\u003eIncident at Vichy\u003c\/i\u003e (1964), \u003ci\u003eThe Price\u003c\/i\u003e (1968), \u003ci\u003eThe Creation of the World and Other Business\u003c\/i\u003e (1972) and \u003ci\u003eThe American Clock\u003c\/i\u003e (1980). He also wrote two novels, \u003ci\u003e Focus\u003c\/i\u003e (1945), and \u003ci\u003eThe Misfits\u003c\/i\u003e, which was filmed in 1960, and the text for \u003ci\u003eIn Russia\u003c\/i\u003e (1969), \u003ci\u003eChinese Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e (1979), and \u003ci\u003eIn the Country\u003c\/i\u003e (1977), three books of photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. His later work included a memoir, \u003ci\u003eTimebends\u003c\/i\u003e (1987); the plays \u003ci\u003eThe Ride Down Mt. Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eThe Last Yankee\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), \u003ci\u003eBroken Glass\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), and \u003ci\u003eMr. Peter's Connections\u003c\/i\u003e (1999); \u003ci\u003eEchoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eOn Politics and the Art of Acting \u003c\/i\u003e(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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610278203666,"sku":"9780143105572","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4c9b1f73-be6e-4ae4-84ff-8082ab93c924.jpg?v=1732338318","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-view-from-the-bridge-9780143105572","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}