A view from the bridge ([Revised ed.])

Set in the 1950s 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 orphan 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.

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