Special Offers see all

More at Powell's

Interviews | Q&As | Essays

Powell’s Q&A: Michael Marder

0 comments By Michael Marder

Describe your latest work. When I started working on Plant-Thinking in 2008, I had no idea that the project would turn out to be as broad as it did.... Continue »

$26.95 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list

Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life
Michael MarderMichael Marder 9780231161251

$13.00

New Trade Paper

Ships in 1 to 3 days

Qty	Store	Section
6	Local Warehouse	Drama- American Anthology
1	Remote Warehouse	Drama- American Anthology

More copies of this ISBN

Used, Trade Paper, $8.00

This title in other editions

Other titles in the Penguin Plays series:

A View from the Bridge (Penguin Plays)

by Arthur Miller

ISBN13: 9780140481358
ISBN10: 0140481354
All Product Details

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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

About the Author

Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 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. He has also written 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. More recent works include a memoir, Timebends (1987), and the plays The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1993), which won the Olivier Award for Best Play of the London Season, and Mr. Peter's Connections (1998). His latest book is On Politics and the Art of Acting. Miller was granted with the 2001 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and in 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

What Our Readers Are Saying

Add a comment for a chance to win!

Average customer rating based on 1 comment:

: memzy, March 30, 2007 (view all comments by memzy)
I will be honest with you, This is the best play i ever rad! Not only that but the best play so far in my gcse english lessons.However in my opinion there was a little more sentence that should of been added like, few years later Catherine calls her son Eddie.Also I like the characters mostly Catherine because she is like a teenage girl in England.Not only that but i would recommend this book for Age 15 and over because of where the play is set and how it is and ofcourse the romance.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(3 of 7 readers found this comment helpful)

report this comment

Product Details

ISBN:: 9780140481358
Author:: Miller, Arthur
Publisher:: Penguin Books
Location:: New York :
Subject:: American
Subject:: American drama (dramatic works by one author)
Subject:: Married people
Subject:: United states
Subject:: General Fiction
Subject:: Marital conflict
Subject:: Married people -- United States.
Subject:: Drama-American Anthology
Copyright:: c196
Edition Description:: Trade Paper
Series:: Plays, Penguin
Publication Date:: 19770731
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:: from 12
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 96
Dimensions:: 7.72x5.16x.27 in. .18 lbs.
Age Level:: from 18

Other books you might like

Topdog/Underdog Suzan-Lori Parks Used Trade Paper $8.00
Love! Valor! Compassion! and a... Terrence Mcnally Used Trade Paper $6.50
All My Sons (Penguin Classics) Arthur Miller Used Trade Paper $7.50
Oleanna: A Play David Mamet

Used Trade Paper $4.50
On Golden Pond Ernest Thompson Used Mass Market $1.95
Reunion and Dark Pony David Mamet New Trade Paper $9.95

Related Subjects

Arts and Entertainment » Drama » American Anthology
Arts and Entertainment » Drama » Plays

Follow us on...

RSS 2.0
Log Off

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.