Arthur Miller&s play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman & a straightforward man with a strong sense of decency & of honour For Eddie it&s a privilege to take in his wife&s cousins Marco & Rodolpho straight off the boat from Italy But as his niece Catherine begins to fall for one of them it&s clear that it&s not just as Eddie claims that he&s too strange too sissy too careless for her but that something bigger deeper is wrong
- & wrong inside Eddie in a way he can&t face Something which threatens the happiness of their whole family This Penguin Classics edition
Includes:: an introduction by the author & a new foreword by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman