num_pages: 171
description: Set 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 niece, Catherine. But the routine of his life is interrupted when Beatrice's cousins, illegal 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.
language: English
title: A View from the Bridge / All My Sons
titlecomplete: A View from the Bridge / All My Sons
genres: American, Classics, School, Poetry Plays, American Fiction, Drama, Tragedy, Plays, Fiction, Theatre
ratings_count: 1289
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Penguin Classics