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A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE : A Play in Two Acts with a New Introduction
by Arthur Miller
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None as Issued
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, NY: Viking Press, 1960. First Edition, 1962 3rd Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Near New & Bright w/tidy, sporadic marginalia strikes (see attached photos) to some 10 pgs. Softcover/VG; strong w/light edge & surface wear. Classic Miller "play given a second chance". 1950's play by Pulitzer Prize wining playwright Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), husband to Marilyn Munroe. First staged Sept, 1955, as a one-act verse drama at the Coronet Theatre on Broadway; the performance was not successful. Miller revised it into a 2-act play, staged in London Oct,1956, to notable recognition. This copy is the 1960, 2-act Edition, w/a New Introduction by Miller. Play set in a 1950's Italian American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge, N.Y. A chorus supports the narrator Alfieri. Story of Eddie who falls in love with Catherine, orphaned niece of his wife Beatrice. Catherine, however, is enamoured with the wife's cousin Rodolfo. Drama set against the corrupt & brutal world of longshoreman working Brooklyn docks. 86 pgs.
Synopsis
America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." —Frank Rich, The New York Times 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
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018027
- Title
- A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE : A Play in Two Acts with a New Introduction
- Author
- Arthur Miller
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1962 3rd Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 86
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Drama, Play in 2-Acts, 1950's Brooklyn, NY, Longshoreman
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music; Opera; Performing Arts;
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